Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Patrick Wojahn

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The result was delete. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 21:53, 15 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Patrick Wojahn[edit]

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Unsure of the notability, College Park is not a major metropolis like Baltimore. Working as a small town mayor isn't necessarily notable. Having child pornography charges brought against him doesn't help or hinder his notability. Also concerned about the undue weight the mention of these charges in the article puts on the subject's notability. Oaktree b (talk) 21:39, 8 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Politicians, Maryland, and Wisconsin. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 22:19, 8 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Comment it's a fair question. Looking at him from the point of view of a month ago, he didn't meet WP:NPOL or WP:ANYBIO, so we'd have had only WP:GNG to work from. I'm not the nominator and I'm not !voting, at least just yet, so I don't have to do the due diligence 😀 but can say that I don't think he's had that kind of coverage.

Regarding his arrest and the charges in isolation from his career, as child pornography suspects are concerned he's run-of-the-mill. At least in the absence of new findings that he's been a major distributor, I doubt word of it would have reached beyond his immediate media coverage zone, and that it would it be sustained.

Putting the two together, his position and the charges, is how this got more than local notice. WP:NPOL can be met by "Major local political figures who have received significant press coverage." But I don't know what mayor of College Park is "major". What's major? It's the major political role within its jurisdiction, but do we go by that is it discerned relative to political office holders throughout the area? But, also, that second criterion at WP:NPOL has a footnote that uses the word "depth" a number of times, and I don't think we have depth at this point.

WP:BIO1E would come into it if the event (his arrest) were notable, but I don't think it is. Largoplazo (talk) 23:01, 8 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. I agree that he does not seem to satisfy the WP:NPOL criteria as a "major" local political figure who has received significant press coverage. BoyTheKingCanDance (talk) 05:43, 9 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Totally agree about deleting; not significant enough to have in Wikipedia 205.213.113.70 (talk) 21:39, 14 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. no significant coverage for WP:NPOL. JoseJan89 (talk) 10:01, 9 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Coverage falls short of WP:SIGCOV that would justify inclusion under WP:NPOL. Shawn Teller (talk) 02:40, 14 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per above discussion. Specifically, I wish to note that College Park is a city of about 35,000 residents. We almost never keep articles about mayors of cities of that size. Obviously, there are exceptions, but they have lots of deep coverage, rather than a WP:BLP1E case as exists here. He also fails my own long-standing standards for lawyers. Bearian (talk) 15:43, 15 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.