Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mario Testa

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The result was delete. Vanamonde (Talk) 21:38, 27 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Mario Testa[edit]

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WP:BLP of a person with neither a strong claim of "inherent" notability under any of Wikipedia's subject-specific inclusion standards, nor enough reliable source coverage to get over WP:GNG. The notability claims here are serving as chairman of a political party's local chapter in a single midsized-city and owning a restaurant in that same city, but neither of those things is an article-clinching notability claim in and of itself -- but the bulk of the sourcing here is not to media coverage about him for the purposes of establishing his notability, but to glancing namechecks of his existence in purely local media coverage of other people or things. And while there are a couple of pieces that are more strongly about him than most of the others, they're still local and they're still not covering him in encyclopedically noteworthy contexts. There are some serious BLP problems here, as well, because untried and unconvicted allegations of unethical behaviour aren't notability-makers for an otherwise non-notable politician. Per WP:PERP, a person who wasn't already notable before being faced with a criminal allegation does not suddenly clear the notability bar on the allegation itself — he would have to be convicted of something before he might have a legitimate claim to be notable on criminal grounds, not merely charged or alleged.
As always, people at the local level of significance are not automatically deemed to pass GNG just because they've gotten their name into their local media a bunch of times -- to be notable enough for inclusion just for being a political party's local committee chair in one midsized city, he would need to be able to show much wider coverage than just the routinely expected handful of hits in that city's own local media. Bearcat (talk) 20:59, 20 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 21:14, 20 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Italy-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 21:14, 20 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Connecticut-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 21:15, 20 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom. Bridgeport, Connecticut, is large enough to bestow notability on its mayor, but not some party hack. Not seeing anything other than local media coverage. Clarityfiend (talk) 07:12, 21 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Chairman of the local Democratic Town Committee. No presumption of notability under WP:NPOL, does not meet WP:GNG. --Enos733 (talk) 18:31, 21 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete I doubt any city level party chair in the current state of US politics is notable, but definately not in Bridgeport.John Pack Lambert (talk) 21:16, 21 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Keep There is much significant coverage about him as a major political player in Connecticut's largest city, satisfying WP:GNG. E.g. WORTH NOTING; Quitting for the Good Of Bridgeport Voters, Mariocracy: a force to be reckoned with in Bridgeport politics, Power ‘couple’ plots for gov, Bridgeport throws Joe Ganim an anniversary party and Scenes From a Scandal 24.151.50.175 (talk) 15:06, 23 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Being active in local politics is not an WP:NPOL pass. Best, GPL93 (talk) 17:14, 23 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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