Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Charles W. Smith


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The result was delete. Tone 08:53, 25 March 2020 (UTC)

Charles W. Smith

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Biography of a person notable only as a county treasurer and town selectman. These are not "inherently" notable roles for the purposes of WP:NPOL; local politicians need to show some genuine substance and significant press coverage to support it, and are not automatically entitled to have articles just because it's possible to offer technical verification that they existed. The only sources here, however, are a glancing namecheck in a county history book that features no substantive content about him, and his routine death notice in the newspaper classfieds. A local politician needs to show much better sourcing than this. Bearcat (talk) 05:00, 18 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 05:00, 18 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Massachusetts-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 05:00, 18 March 2020 (UTC)


 * Delete. Nothing really of note with respect to this subject (who, as it happens, is actually named "Charles H. Smith, and died in 1906, not 1916). BD2412  T 13:58, 18 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete Norfolk County is one of the most over covered places in Wikipedia, as a result of the affliction of Dedhamania. County officials are not inherently notable, and there is no evidence that Smith is notable.John Pack Lambert (talk) 14:13, 18 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete fails WP:NPOL and isn't particularly notable in any other sense. Best, GPL93 (talk) 21:55, 18 March 2020 (UTC)


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