Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Darius G. Pridgen


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The result was delete. Missvain (talk) 01:08, 9 December 2020 (UTC)

Darius G. Pridgen

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WP:BLP of a city councillor, not reliably sourced as passing WP:NPOL #2. As always, city council is not a level of office that confers an automatic notability freebie just because the person exists -- to get a Wikipedia article for serving at this level of office, a person must either (a) serve on the city council of an externally recognized global city on the order of New York City, Los Angeles, Toronto or London, or (b) be referenceable to a depth and range and volume of media coverage that marks them out as a special case of much more nationalized significance than most other city councillors. (And no, being president of the council still isn't a notability freebie; even with that title, he still has to pass the same global city and/or nationalized sourceability tests as any other city councillor.) Neither of those conditions are demonstrated here, however: the city does not have global city status, and the article cites just three footnotes of which one is a Q&A interview in a local interest magazine in which he's talking about himself in the first person (thus fine for verification of facts but not a builder of notability), one is his "staff" profile on the city council's self-published website about itself (a primary source that is not a builder of notability), and one is just a piece of routine local news reportage about his battle with Miss Corona. So there's only one source here that's reliable or GNG-worthy, and that's not enough. Bearcat (talk) 18:50, 2 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 18:50, 2 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of New York-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 18:50, 2 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete lacks the depth of coverage in WP:RS needed to meet WP:BIO Valenciano (talk) 23:55, 3 December 2020 (UTC)


 * Delete being on a city council is not a default sign of notability and we do not have sufficient sourcing to show notability. I have come to realize even in denominations where bishops supervise large numbers of congregations default notablity is not there for bishops. In this case, Pridgen looks to be a Pentecostal bishop, and in Pentecostalism it is unclear what makes someone a bishop. Many Pentecostal bishops are over one congregation, and while they are often big congregations, not every head of a congrgregation of 5000 is notable.John Pack Lambert (talk) 20:17, 4 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete. The city council president in New York's 62 cities has a bully pulpit and some procedural powers, but no substantive powers beyond that of any other alderman or member of a city council. Absent significant coverage, this person is not notable. Bearian (talk) 22:54, 8 December 2020 (UTC)


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