Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Charles H. Lyons


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The result was delete. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 05:55, 6 October 2016 (UTC)

Charles H. Lyons

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Delete. WP:BLP of a person whose only substantive claim of notability is that he was "the first 18-year-old in the United States elected to a town or city position" and that he was later elected president of an organization. Neither of these are claims of notability that confer an automatic inclusion freebie on a person just because they exist, if the reliable sourcing needed to get him over WP:GNG for them isn't there — but what we have here for sourcing is his own primary source website about himself, a directory of video clips of him giving soundbite on the news, and a single news article about him being honoured by the town council that he served on. This is not the depth or volume of sourcing that it takes to get someone over GNG if they don't have an automatic pass of any subject-specific inclusion criterion. (Also, the article was created by an editor with "lyons" in their username, so there's a possible WP:COI here too.) Bearcat (talk) 17:39, 28 September 2016 (UTC)


 * Delete - For all the above reasons. Cosmic Sans (talk) 18:21, 28 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete - Agreed with nominator.♦ Dr. Blofeld  18:49, 28 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete Age at election to a non-notable level office does not make one notable. This is not a trivia collection but an encyclopedia. Beyond this our sourcing on the claim he was the first 18-year-old elected to a position is the staff bio from the school where he was superintendent. This is not the type of 3rd party source we would need verifying the claim if it was something that was notable.John Pack Lambert (talk) 05:59, 2 October 2016 (UTC)


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