Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Joseph Marrese

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The result was no consensus. Sam Walton (talk) 23:22, 10 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Joseph Marrese[edit]

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WP:BLP of a person notable only as a school trustee and an unsuccessful candidate for higher office, neither of which is a claim of notability that gets a person over WP:NPOL. Although the article is sourced, nothing here is actually outside of the ordinary level of purely local media coverage that all school trustees always get — meaning that none of it provides any actual reason why he would warrant permanent coverage in an encyclopedia with an international audience. This is basically a leftover from a time (2006) when our notability standards for politicians were a lot looser than they are now, but NPOL has been tightened up considerably over the years and he doesn't pass it as things stand in 2014. Delete. Bearcat (talk) 21:06, 18 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Ontario-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 21:25, 18 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 21:25, 18 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, NorthAmerica¹⁰⁰⁰ 21:12, 25 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Delete School board members are not automatically notable and his coverage is just the routine reporting of his school board activities--nothing to show encyclopedic notability.131.118.229.17 (talk) 21:51, 25 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, NorthAmerica¹⁰⁰⁰ 23:10, 2 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Keep: I disagree. No, school board members don't get automatic passes on WP:POLITICIAN. But this is the guy who ran the school board in Metro Toronto. The district has a quarter-million freaking students--- larger than many cities that get passes for mayors and aldermen--- over 500 schools, an annual budget of $3 billion, and it's the 4th largest school district in the hemisphere. We're not talking your small town school committee here. Nha Trang ^Allons! 21:12, 3 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Keep: repugnant individual based on what I read, but one who acquired, largely through his notoriety, a degree of notability. Quis separabit? 21:28, 5 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - Public figure who appears to meet our GNG. Carrite (talk) 16:59, 9 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Delete He was the chair of what is now known as the Toronto Catholic District School Board. That article doesn't link to him, and he won't be missed. This article had way too much detail about minor public offices, and way too little about what he was doing, which was advocating for the Catholic schools. The scandal sounds like a routine, small potatoes local politics COI scandal. – Margin1522 (talk) 21:17, 9 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Based on references (out of 25, only 2 are not Toronto Star), this person is shown to be solely of local interest, which is the norm for local offices that do not confer WP:GNG. LaMona (talk) 22:56, 9 December 2014 (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.