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Speedy deletion nomination of 1908 Pennsylvania (Luzerne County) Justice of the Peace Appointments


A tag has been placed on 1908 Pennsylvania (Luzerne County) Justice of the Peace Appointments requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article providing little or no context to the reader. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

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John J. Threston
I'm not sure what the John Gunderson article has to do with anything. It may well not be very good, But I don't think it can be speedily deleted, and I'll leave it to others to decide whether to prod or AFD it. The article is confused. It's not obvious whether you are writing about John Threston, the surname, or its variants. I'm not sure that being a JP meets the notability guidelines, but I'm not deaf to arguments on this. What I would suggest, if you think he is notable, is that you rewrite as a standard wikipedia article without urls in the text, just wikilinks and references (Gunderson actually does this, so you could use it as a model for formatting).

Decide whether you are writing about him, or the family name (which could be a separate article). This is supposed to be an article about him, not a family genealogy page.

Together they had 8 children of which 6 survived. &mdash; to adulthood? I'm not sure that the list of children's names is relevant either.

I can let you have the deleted text in a sandbox if you need it.

 Jimfbleak -  talk to me?  08:49, 6 January 2012 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of 1908 Pennsylvania (Luzerne County) Justice of the Peace Appointments


The article 1908 Pennsylvania (Luzerne County) Justice of the Peace Appointments has been proposed for deletion&#32; because of the following concern:
 * Absolutely non notable. A justice of the peace is not a notable position.  A listing of justice of the peace appointments serves no purpose.  This article clearly fails WP:INDISCRIMINATE.

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Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Safiel (talk) 02:30, 7 January 2012 (UTC)