Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Raphaël Bouton

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The result was soft delete‎. Based on minimal participation, this uncontroversial nomination is treated as an expired PROD (a.k.a. "soft deletion"). Editors can request the article's undeletion. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 23:35, 12 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Raphaël Bouton[edit]

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WP:BLP of a person not properly sourced as passing Wikipedia inclusion criteria. The closest thing to a notability claim here is that he was the designated substitute to a member of the French Parliament: that is, he was the guy who would have succeeded Élisabeth Pochon if she had resigned the seat or died in the middle of her term, but that isn't an "inherently" notable role in its own right. If Pochon had vacated the seat and Bouton had accordingly become an MP, then he would obviously pass WP:NPOL #1, but that didn't happen, so there's nothing "inherently" notable about being the substitute-in-waiting.
The rest of the content here is candidacies in elections he didn't win, his work for various organizations and committees, and a statement of the "first member of [underrepresented minority group] to do a non-notable thing" variety, none of which is notability-clinching stuff without proper sourcing either, and the referencing is parked almost entirely on directly affiliated primary sources that aren't support for notability, with absolutely no evidence of WP:GNG-worthy coverage about him shown at all: the only citation in the entire article that technically comes from a reliable source is here solely to tangentially verify a stray fact, and completely fails to name Raphaël Bouton at all in conjunction with it, and thus does not help to boost his notability either.
In addition, it warrants note that (a) there's no article about him on the French Wikipedia, where one would obviously be expected if he actually had any genuine notability in French politics, and (b) the article was created by a WP:SPA with a direct conflict of interest.
Nothing here is "inherently" notable enough to exempt him from having to be referenced far, far better than this. Bearcat (talk) 14:43, 28 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Update: just a note to add that on further investigation, an article did once exist on the French Wikipedia, but then got deleted on the grounds that he was only a substitute and didn't have any properly sourced indication of any other valid notability claims, and then never came back. Bearcat (talk) 14:27, 1 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Politicians and France. Bearcat (talk) 14:43, 28 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: Notability not established by sources. Doesn't appear to have won any position that would over-come the lack of GNG. Macktheknifeau (talk) 17:43, 28 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Hey man im josh (talk) 17:59, 5 October 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.