Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chris Witts

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was delete. The position of Sheriff of Gloucester is, as the official website says, purely ceremonial. Witts role as a local councillor is also insufficient for notability. However, he is also a local author. Taking all these together and there is a case for notability. The consensus, though, is clearly that this doesn't add up to enough and it is not my role as closer to substitute my judgement for that of the Community. I would have no objection to recreation if further and better sources can be provided. TerriersFan (talk) 01:13, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

Chris Witts

I believe this individual, a local politician in England, does not meet the criteria for Notability. His notability rests on being one of 35 current local councillors for Gloucester, and on being one of 257 past Sheriffs of Gloucester. I don't believe any of his peers or rivals have articles. Behind The Wall Of Sleep (talk) 18:53, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

• Delete. I haven't lived in Gloucester for some years, but when I did, the sheriffs were really not well known except to the most dedicated followers of local politics. The press coverage of this individual is all local. Regular editors of the article Gloucester seem to have felt the subject was non-notable when a link to Chris Witts was added to that article: see here and here. William Avery (talk) 13:31, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

• Weak Delete Not a county sheriff--the English country sheriffs tho not as notable now as historically might well all be considered sufficiently notable for an article. Rather the town sheriff; historical figures in this role may have been significant. The present-day ones don;t seem to be,[1] unless there is something special to say about one more than is said here. DGG (talk) 00:27, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Comment. I agree county sheriffs are slightly more notable. We do have an article on High Sheriff and a redlink for the current High Sheriff of Gloucestershire; only two historic High Sheriffs of Gloucestershire have articles (Percival Marling, Stephen Mitchell (MP)), neither of which actually mention their position as High Sheriff so I assume it isn't a significant factor in their notability. As far as I can see Wikipedia doesn't cover town sheriffs at all, which I think speaks volumes. Behind The Wall Of Sleep (talk) 16:47, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. —User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 01:46, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

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.