Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Augusto Sorriso


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The result was Delete. Michig (talk) 06:30, 25 April 2016 (UTC)

Augusto Sorriso

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Fails WP:POLITICIAN. Minimally sourced WP:BLP. From the article: he "is an Italian and American politician and entrepreneur." He doesn't seem to be an American politician. As for the "Italian" part, he was a candidate, just like thousands of other Italians, but has never been elected in a national or sub-national legislative body. The only available source — an article from a local newspaper — is about a small town in Sicily where he was the mayor for five years. "Entrepreneur." From the article: he "moved to New Jersey with his family in 1994 and started a successful franchise of salad restaurants." I don't understand what the successful franchise is. In any case, no sources seem to substantiate this claim. Tadde0 (talk) 02:30, 18 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. GabeIglesia (talk) 02:45, 18 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Italy-related deletion discussions. GabeIglesia (talk) 02:45, 18 April 2016 (UTC)


 * Comment I do believe that that the person is being confused with a Vincent Sorriso who founded some franchises and a restraunt, as some googling found this local newspaper article. Galobtter (talk) 15:23, 18 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete Clearly not notable. Basically he was involved in some campaigns, but without meeting notability guidelines. --Gmacar (talk) 20:45, 20 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Unelected candidates for office do not get Wikipedia articles just for being candidates — if you cannot make and properly source a credible claim that he was already notable enough for a Wikipedia article independently of the candidacy, then he has to win the seat, not just run for it, to become eligible. But nothing here gets him over the bar — the most substantive thing here is that he served as mayor of a town that is not large enough to confer automatic notability-because-mayor on all of its mayors, and the sourcing is not substantive enough to satisfy WP:GNG. Delete. Bearcat (talk) 23:41, 22 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete as nothing convincing for the applicable notability. SwisterTwister   talk  02:53, 23 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete Even if the guy who ran the restaurants in New Jersey is the Italian politician is true, which seems somewhat likely but depends on what is said in a local New Jersey newspaper, it is not enough to make him notable. He has run for the Italian senate and lost on multiple occasions, and he has run some local franchises of an unspecified restaurant. Owners of Franchises of restaurants are very rarely notable for that.John Pack Lambert (talk) 02:18, 24 April 2016 (UTC)


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