Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rubén González Sosa

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The result was soft delete‎. Based on minimal participation, this uncontroversial nomination is treated as an expired PROD (a.k.a. "soft deletion"). Editors can request the article's undeletion. ✗plicit 23:44, 24 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Rubén González Sosa[edit]

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Biography of a diplomat, not properly sourced as passing our notability criteria for diplomats. As always, every diplomat is not automatically entitled to a Wikipedia article just because he exists or existed, and instead diplomats only get articles if they can be shown to pass WP:GNG on their sourceability -- but existence is the only notability claim being made here, and the only sources are a short biographical blurb on one page of a book with over 2,000 pages and a very brief blurb about his death in a source that isn't even dated at all in order to replace the incorrect Category:Living people (which I've already removed) with an actual death year category.
The article further asserts that he was a politician, but says absolutely nothing about any political roles he might have held to determine whether he would pass WP:NPOL or not.
This is not enough sourcing to secure the notability of a diplomat all by itself, and nothing stated in the article is "inherently" notable to exempt him from having to have more sourcing than this. Bearcat (talk) 17:38, 17 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: People and Mexico. Bearcat (talk) 17:38, 17 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Hey man im josh (talk) 18:47, 17 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: He appears to have been the vice-minister for foreign affairs [1], but this seems to be a bureaucratic position rather than a political one, so I don't think it can be considered WP:NPOL-conferring as it is not a cabinet position. Besides that, there is a complete lack of WP:SIGCOV. Curbon7 (talk) 03:38, 19 May 2023 (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.