Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bob Corlew


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The result was delete. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont)  14:01, 12 September 2018 (UTC)

Bob Corlew

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Political candidate who has never held political office. Did not even receive his party's nomination. Delete per WP:POLITICIAN. A loose noose (talk) 13:04, 4 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 13:13, 4 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Tennessee-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 13:13, 4 September 2018 (UTC)


 * Delete. Neither being an unsuccessful candidate in a party primary nor being a county court judge constitutes an article-clinching notability claim, but this makes no credible claim that he's somehow a special case over and above all the other non-notable people who've done the same things. The closest thing to such a claim, that one court case he was involved in got wider national coverage than usual, is clobbered by the fact that said coverage is not about him — that coverage might support an event article about the case, but it does not help the case's presiding judge earn a WP:BLP as a person. And since both primary candidates and county court judges are simply and routinely expected to receive some local coverage in their own local media, the existence of some such coverage is not an automatic WP:GNG pass in and of itself either. All of which means that nothing here is enough to earn him a Wikipedia article — and furthermore, the article was created by a sockpuppet of a banned paid-editor. Bearcat (talk) 13:49, 4 September 2018 (UTC)
 * leaning keep. He's had a lot of civic affairs coverage over the years, culminting last year when he was President of the Lions Clubs International, and seems to have gone on the nationand and international Lions Club, with press coverage of him shaking hands with the President of Taiwan,  Tsai Ing-wen  and a lot of other people.  searching gNews on Corlew + "Lions Club]] brings up some of this, after you scroll past the recent election coverage.E.M.Gregory (talk) 18:29, 4 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete fails WP:NPOL and WP:GNG. Per the Lions Club argument, there's some local coverage, a decent local bio, and a few name-drops where the Lions Club acted in local regions, but none of the recent other Lions Club presidents have an article (it's a year term apparently) and I don't see enough coverage that would make him independently notable as the Lions Club president. SportingFlyer  talk  06:20, 6 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete The only thing that might give him notability was his involvement with the highly contentious and litigated case of the Murphreesboro Mosque. However having recently moved from Sterling Heights into Detroit and thus left a city where the exact same open meetings act violation strategy was used to attack a mosque, I think this needs to be considered in a larger persepctive. Anyway, this was a strategy determined by lawyers or activitsts, and he just considered the merits, and his ruling was oveturned on appeal. Short of scholarly law journal articles giving indepth consideration of Corlew's rulings in the matter, I do not think we have enough to justify an article. Part of me suspects this may in the future be something that gets indepth analysis, but we have to remember that as an encyclopedia Wikipedia is not on the cutting edge of publishing research but is supposed to reflect what has already been published in reliable secondary sources, and we do not have those indepth and considered analisists of Corlew's work to justify an article.John Pack Lambert (talk) 21:25, 9 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete fails WP:NPOL no notable election won or posts held. Sources covering are weak. Also agree with the contributors above. -- D Big X ray ᗙ  20:39, 10 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Weak delete - arguably, he might be considered a notable lawyer, based on a combination of his civic, legal, and political work, but I'm not going to bother to make that argument; the only courts he presided over was a small district. Bearian (talk) 00:33, 11 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Redirect to United States House of Representatives elections in Tennessee, 2018 where he ran. This is really the only thing he's notable for so it makes sense to redirect there per WP:CHEAP. Redditaddict69 (talk) (contribs)  02:04, 12 September 2018 (UTC)


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