Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Christian Jensen Jr.


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was soft delete. Based on minimal participation, this uncontroversial nomination is treated as an expired PROD (a.k.a. "soft deletion"). Editors can request the article's undeletion. Daniel (talk) 06:16, 23 August 2021 (UTC)

Christian Jensen Jr.

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Résumé-like biography of a small-town mayor, not reliably sourced as having any strong claim to passing WP:NPOL #2. The strongest notability claim on offer here is that a piece of public infrastructure was named after him following his death, but that isn't an instant notability freebie in the absence of adequate sourcing (stuff gets named after former mayors all the time, everywhere), and the footnoting here is almost entirely to primary sources that are not support for notability at all, such as the self-published websites of directly affiliated organizations, user-generated genealogical content on FamilySearch or Find a Grave, and a university history essay that happens to mention his name a few times without being about him in any non-trivial sense. (One of the FamilySearch hits is actually a clipping of a newspaper obituary, but (a) that isn't enough coverage to get a smalltown mayor over WP:GNG all by itself if it's the only real media hit he has, and (b) it fails to actually identify the newspaper in which it was originally published.) Further, the article was created by a single purpose account with no history of contributing to Wikipedia on any other topic, who's almost certainly a member of Christian Jensen's own family (thus violating our conflict of interest rules) as their username lines right up with the married surname of one of Jensen's daughters. Nothing stated here is "inherently" notable enough to exempt Christian Jensen from having to have a lot more real coverage about him in real media than this, and Wikipedia is not a free platform to memorialize your own ancestors. Bearcat (talk) 16:36, 31 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 16:36, 31 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Alberta-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 16:36, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Comment: It seems this entire article will come down to the veracity of the statement: "He was instrumental in establishing several of the leading agricultural organizations in Alberta of the early 20th century." A quick Google search returned little, although I'm presently not sure enough one way or the other to make a !vote just yet. Curbon7 (talk) 22:07, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Daniel (talk) 23:53, 7 August 2021 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, RL0919 (talk) 05:40, 15 August 2021 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.