Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jack Breaux

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The result was delete. — JJMC89 (T·C) 00:59, 10 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Jack Breaux[edit]

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Fails WP:NPOL and WP:GNG. Sources used are basic government records, his obit, and unlinked local newspaper articles. GPL93 (talk) 14:21, 2 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Ceethekreator (talk) 14:28, 2 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Louisiana-related deletion discussions. Ceethekreator (talk) 14:28, 2 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete is there no end to articles on minor Louisiana mayors?John Pack Lambert (talk) 15:42, 2 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Apparently no end, you can help sift through them! Reywas92^Talk 18:14, 2 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Keep He was the first Republican mayor since Reconstruction. If he wasn't I'd say delete, but that's a significant enough fact to warrant some relevancy. Duce de Zoop (talk) 20:00, 2 April 2019 (UTC)— Duce de Zoop (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic. [reply]
Delete. Zachary LA is not large enough to confer an automatic notability freebie on its mayors just for existing as mayors, but the article is not referenced anywhere close to well enough to get him over the bar that he actually has to clear: "major local political figures who have received significant press coverage". And no, being the first member of one particular party to win the mayoralty is not a free pass to being special, either — regardless of whether a mayor is a Democrat or a Republican or a member of some minor political party, he still has to show much more press coverage about him than this shows. As always, Billy Hathorn, the existence of an obituary in the local newspaper upon a person's death is not an instant notability pass that guarantees the person an article in and of itself and exempts all of the rest of the sources from actually having to be reliable or substantive — but apart from the obituary, this is otherwise referenced entirely to raw tables of election results and genealogy documents and non-source clarifying notes and glancing namechecks of his existence in articles about other things or people, not to substantive coverage about him. This is, as usual, not how you reference a smalltown mayor as notable enough for Wikipedia. Bearcat (talk) 15:30, 4 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Does not meet WP:POLITICIAN, one of many articles about minor LA political figures created by a now banned user. OhNoitsJamie ^Talk 20:12, 4 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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