Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Adam Guillette (2nd nomination)


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The result was   delete. -- Lear's Fool 15:30, 21 April 2011 (UTC)

Adam Guillette
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Fails notability requirement. Majority of sources are regional/local newspaper coverage, blogs, or just passing mentions inside a larger story. Was involved in a possibly notable campaign where the Florida legislature required the U.S. Flag to be displayed in classrooms...but not notable on his own. No broad coverage in reliable secondary sources. Quinn ☂THUNDER 03:15, 12 April 2011 (UTC)
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 * Keep State Director for Americans for Prosperity, a notable organization. is RS with coverage of him in that role.   made UPI wire.  He was not notable in 2005, but times change.    more. , in short, sufficient notability without insisting on holding political office.   In fact, I suggest that he is not a "politician"  but more specifically a libertarian activist.  Collect (talk) 15:03, 12 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Response regarding the sources you provided in defense of keep vote-


 * | 1 Jacksonville.com. A story about a protest of a local property tax increase to support an anti-crime initiative by the Jacksonville, FL mayor.  Guillette is quoted and is indeed credited as the State (Florida) director for Americans for Prosperity. Is that a notable position?
 * | 2 UPI.com. Guillette did not make the UPI wire as asserted…Dan Quiggly did for accidentally jamming emergency phone service by sending out an auto-generated phone message encouraging voters to protest a proposed county tax hike.  Guillette merely commented on the issue in defense of Quiggly.
 * | 3 Jacksonville.com again. And again the story is about Jacksonville City budget negotiation.  Guillette  is named in only a few sentences about his role in the negotiations.
 * | 4 Orlando Sentinel this time…but yet again a story about local budget concerns and a proposed tax increase.  Again, Guillette is quoted only briefly. Quinn ☂THUNDER  15:55, 12 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Keep - Adam Guillette is, I believe, current Executive Director of the Conservative Leadership PAC and CO-FOUNDER OF A GROUP called Tea Party Patriots. He is a public figure on that basis and Wikipedia should be including a biography of him. Carrite (talk) 16:06, 12 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Comment The 5/25/03 NY Times is one source toward passing WP:BASIC. One more should put us just over the bar of WP:BASIC. Anybody have anything? Lionel (talk) 04:53, 13 April 2011 (UTC)
 * I looked through that NYT article--9 pages of it--and did not find any mention of "Adam Guillette." Did I miss it? -MrFizyx (talk) 15:41, 16 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Delete: I believe that Quinn is correct in his assessment of the sources in the article and I do not think this topic meets notability criteria. -MrFizyx (talk) 15:41, 16 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete I agree with Quinn's assessment of the sources and disagree with the assertion that leadership of a political action group confers notability. Not without significant coverage in reliable sources arising from the leadership, it doesn't. --Mkativerata (talk) 22:37, 16 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete per Quinn's analysis of the sources. Guillette apparently fails the notability criteria at WP:BIO, although it would be fair to say that he's been quoted many times (not unexpected for a leader of a prominent interest group on the state level). While this waits in the AfD queue, I decided to go ahead and remove the trivia section of the article, which explained that he named his own dog after Ronald Reagan's. A Stop at Willoughby (talk) 05:14, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete We don't much care if the sources are local, but coverage of Guillette appears to indeed be trivial, and not in-depth or significant. This does not surprise me, since he's basically a local head for a lobbying organization. These positions are not uncommon as apprenticeships for people who might eventually want to run for office, like state representatives. Ray  Talk 16:47, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
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