Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John Bowing

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The result was delete - Terriersfan has allayed the concerns raised by Scope creep.Blnguyen (bananabucket) 04:19, 21 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

John Bowing[edit]

In the UK, district council members are not inherently notable (all strategic issues are decided at county council level). Though he has been mayor, in this town mayor is a purely ceremonial role with no powers. The coverage in the locality article suffices.I have not found any press coverage of this John Bowing on Google here. Fails both WP:V and WP:BIO.

Delete. TerriersFan 23:28, 16 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Keep There might be some notability in the fact that he was an early member of the Liberal Democrat party. Sources needed though. District court stuff, certainly not. scope_creep 00:59, 17 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - an interesting thought but when the Liberal Democrat party was formed from a merger of the Liberal Party and the SDP there were over 100,000 members. TerriersFan 01:19, 17 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Delete as per nom Bwithh 03:59, 17 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Keep This article is obviously a stub about somebody involved in local British politics. There seems to me to be strong case for building up such biographies which are available to researchers. Information which seems commonplace today may acquire significance later. Surely, Wikipedia servers can’t be so full that there is no room for this. We should encourage all persons involved in the public domain to record what they know about public people and events. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.56.53.59 (talk • contribs)

Comment - the first problem is that this article fails WP:V since there are no sources that show that the guy even existed. TerriersFan 17:04, 17 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per WP:V. A contemporary politician with zero Google hits? Sandstein 07:07, 18 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per Sandstein Several g hits for "John, bowing" or "Sir John, bowing" or "St. John, bowing". Cheers, :) Dlohcierekim 12:48, 19 November 2006 (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.