Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/A. Holly Patterson


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The result was  Keep. Reccomend that sources found by Icewedge are added to the article. Many thanks,  Gazi moff  10:29, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

A. Holly Patterson

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local politician, fails WP:BIO, WP:POLITICIAN


 * Keep for reasons stated above. JamesMLane t c 02:38, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete Keep Notability undemonstrated. Local politicians must have significant coverage by independent reliable sources to be notable. There is as of now no evidence of such. Mayors of world-famous metroplexes can get a presumption that such coverage exists. Executives of counties, even populous ones, do not enjoy the same. RayAYang (talk) 02:39, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Position changed followiing sources uncovered by Icewedge. Huh. I had not expected archives of that age to be online; goes to show one should always google first and think about it later. RayAYang (talk) 03:36, 24 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Keep per JamesMLane. There is also not unsubstantial coverage of him in the New York Times archive, see Google News. - Icewedge (talk) 03:21, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions.   —JamesMLane t c 03:28, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete No evidence he satisfies WP:POLITICIAN. There is no established inherent notability for being a "county executive of Nassau County" any more than there is for being a "Kentucky Colonel." Just linking to a Google News search rife with passing references, obituaries and the like is not a proof of substantial coverage. Edison2 (talk) 04:00, 24 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Keep Nassau County executive is the equivalent of mayor of a city. It's an elected position, " the head of the executive branch of government in a county" The importance will obviously depend on the country involved--over 1 million counts as notable--we routinely accept mayor mayors at 1/10 of that. QAnd he held the position for 9 yrs.  And  the sources fully show the importance, as one would expect. Careless nomination, it did meet the basic criterion  of subtantial independent coverage .The use of the irrelevant bogus KC argument in the face of that seems even more careless.    DGG (talk) 10:29, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep Significant elected position.  Obviously notable. Edward321 (talk) 13:31, 24 August 2008 (UTC)


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