Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/David William Thomas (2nd nomination)


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The result was delete. Ad Orientem (talk) 01:39, 3 February 2018 (UTC)

David William Thomas
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Non-notable mayor of a small town. Does not meet WP:POLITICIAN or WP:GNG. Article created by banned serial copyright violator and sock puppeteer Billy Hathorn. Here is the copyright detector link ("violation possible" at 47.9%) Marquardtika (talk) 19:08, 27 January 2018 (UTC)
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 * Delete- the article is a mess anyway, the notes in the infobox are something I've never seen before. This guy may have been the most interesting mayor of Minden, but it still doesn't make him notable.--Rusf10 (talk) 07:09, 28 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete as a presumptive copyright violation. MER-C 12:16, 28 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Comment When I compared a New York Times obituary with an Associated Press obituary a few years ago with the same tool, I got a 70% match. What percent is a copyright violation? There are only so many ways you can list the facts of a person's life in chronological order in prose. The biggest differences in obits were how much of the death is in the lede paragraph and how much in the last paragraph. --RAN (talk) 17:26, 29 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete This comes no where close to meeting any notability requirements. It is part of a walled garden of articles on local level politicians. There is no justification for having articles on mayors of such a minor place, let alone on all of them.John Pack Lambert (talk) 03:27, 30 January 2018 (UTC)


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