Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bobby Wilson (Pittsburgh politician)


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The result was delete. ✗ plicit  12:41, 5 July 2022 (UTC)

Bobby Wilson (Pittsburgh politician)

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Fails WP:GNG; WP:NPOL. Representing 1st District on Pittsburgh City Council, does not pass having held "international, national, or state/province–wide office, or have been members of legislative bodies at those levels." Alexandermcnabb (talk) 08:37, 28 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: People, Politicians,  and United States of America. Alexandermcnabb (talk) 08:37, 28 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete city council members are only very rarely notable for such, and we lack the broad scope of sources we generally need to show a local politician is notable.John Pack Lambert (talk) 13:49, 28 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete. Strictly speaking, it's irrelevant that Pittsburgh City Council doesn't pass NPOL #1 ("international, national, or state/province–wide office, or have been members of legislative bodies at those levels") — because right under NPOL #1 there's also a cute little thing called NPOL #2, or "Major local political figures who have received significant press coverage", which it is very possible for a Pittsburgh City Councillor to pass. The problem is, however, that NPOL #2 doesn't confer an automatic inclusion freebie on all city councillors, and this article isn't really doing enough to demonstrate that Wilson would pass it since he isn't really the subject of most of the sources. I also note that there are only 31 other people filed in, of whom the clear majority have also served in more notable offices such as mayor, the state legislature or US Congress at other times in their careers — there are very few people in that category who have articles based solely on having been city councillors in Pittsburgh per se, and even some of those few may need to be reviewed and/or listed for AFD too. Bearcat (talk) 21:56, 1 July 2022 (UTC)


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