Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jeff Wright (politician)

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The result was delete. TheSandDoctor ^Talk 14:35, 25 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Jeff Wright (politician)[edit]

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County-level politician fails WP:NPOL. KidAd talk 06:45, 18 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Michigan-related deletion discussions. Spiderone 09:16, 18 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Spiderone 09:16, 18 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Delete local drain commissioners are almost never notable, nothing to suggest Wright is the extremely rare exception to this general rule.John Pack Lambert (talk) 21:11, 19 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Being county-level head of a local infrastructure department is not an automatic notability freebie that guarantees inclusion in Wikipedia, and the article is not referenced anywhere close to well enough to suggest that he's more notable than the norm for that level of significance. As always, WP:GNG is not just "count the footnotes and keep anything that gets to two" — it tests the sources for their depth, their geographic range and the context of what they're covering the subject for, not just the raw number, so the fact that he's gotten his name into his local media a handful of times, in exactly the same way as every head of every public works department in every county can always show, is not automatically enough in and of itself. Bearcat (talk) 16:00, 20 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Wright appears to have some coverage in relation to the Flint water crisis, but not enough to merit a standalone article. It's possible that a merge redirect to the water crisis article could be appropriate, although even then that article only has one quick mention of Wright. Best, GPL93 (talk) 19:51, 23 January 2021 (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.