Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/George A. Holt Jr.

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The result was delete. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 00:05, 4 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

George A. Holt Jr.[edit]

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Fails WP:NPOL as a county legislator. GPL93 (talk) 22:05, 27 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of New York-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 22:11, 27 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 22:12, 27 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Passes WP:NPOL(He represented the 3rd District of the Erie County Legislature from 1994-2007 & Major local political figures who have received significant press coverage on his judicial cases.).--PATH SLOPU 02:48, 28 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Path slopu: county legislators are not covered by WP:NPOL and I wouldn't particularly a single blurb in a local newspaper crime report significant coverage. Best, GPL93 (talk) 10:36, 28 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. I don't think a US county-level politician satisfy NPOL, and the coverage is not particularly in-depth or major to satisfy general GNG. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 03:16, 28 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete A county-level position is not an automatic pass of WP:NPOL (obviously we're not talking about a state or province-wide office) so there's no presumption of notability to be found here. The first reference links to a list of names and the second to a blurb on a state agency report. I do not consider WP:GNG to be met here, since there's no significant coverage to be found in multiple reliable sources. I also could not find better sources out there to cover this BLP. RetiredDuke (talk) 23:59, 28 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete This is sure delete. It doesn't pass WP:NPLOL and WP:GNG Camron6598 (talk) 19:36, 29 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Fail passes notability --SalmanZ (talk) 21:52, 30 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. The lowest level of political office that guarantees an article to every officeholder is the state legislature. At the county level, it might sometimes be possible for a county councillor to clear the bar if they can be really well-sourced, but they are not automatically a "major local political figure" just because they're verifiable as existing — the notability test for officeholders at the county level is the ability to write and source a genuinely substantive article that makes a credible case that he's significantly more notable than most other county councillors. But if he's been the subject of enough press coverage to clear NPOL #2, this article sure isn't showing it: the only two footnotes present here at all are both primary sources that do not constitute support for notability, and there's literally no evidence of real notability-supporting reliable source coverage being shown at all. Bearcat (talk) 13:10, 1 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete WP:GNG aside, I have a large problem with the second paragraph in the article, which should be removed if this thing isn't deleted completely. SportingFlyer T·C 01:17, 3 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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