Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Denny Barney


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The result was delete. J04n(talk page) 19:23, 4 April 2018 (UTC)

Denny Barney

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Vanity bio of an Arizona county supervisor. No indication -- let alone sources -- of what makes noteworthy. Calton | Talk 15:18, 27 March 2018 (UTC)
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 * Delete - fails WP:NPOL. No other claim of notability found. MB 23:49, 27 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete also, pretty certain this page was deleted once before. ErieSwiftByrd (talk) 05:26, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete. County supervisors are not granted an automatic presumption of notability just because they exist, but this is not referenced to the depth or volume or geographic range of reliable source coverage it would take to deem him a special case over and above most other county supervisors: two of the three sources are just WP:ROUTINE local coverage of the type and volume that's merely expected to exist for all county supervisors everywhere, and the third is a YouTube clip. Further, it's written much more like a campaign brochure than a proper encyclopedia article, and that's exactly the type of article that even politicians who do clear our notability standards still don't get to have. And yes, this was deleted previously at Articles for deletion/Clint Hickman. Bearcat (talk) 16:19, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Why target the Denny Barney page? He is the new President of East Valley partnership and a big name in the community should have a page. Don't we encourage others to contribute to wikipedia? Why delete the page right away. Isn't it fair to allow others to add the page to show its value. Why is the one Democrat on the County Board of Supervisors...Steve Gallardo allowed to have a page but not Denny Barney who chaired the board for four years? — Preceding unsigned comment added by AZ Political Junkie (talk • contribs) 18:05, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
 * "President of the East Valley Partnership" is not a notability claim that gets a person into Wikipedia. And Steve Gallardo doesn't have an article because he serves on the county council; he has an article because he's served in the state legislature. The state legislature is, for the record, the lowest level of office at which every person who serves in that role gets an automatic notability pass as a politician — at the county level, you need to show significant evidence that he's more notable than most other county councillors, not just evidence that he exists. It's not a party bias issue: it's the fact that Gallardo has held a notable political office in the past, while Barney has not. Bearcat (talk) 18:30, 28 March 2018 (UTC)


 * Delete per nomination and per Bearcat. It's also mostly a paste of his copyrighted biography from the Maricopa County govt website, which I've not removed yet per WP:SNOWBALL. On a side note, the article currently says that he campaigned on "addressing issues such as inmate recidivism", so I feel compelled to share this important information on inmate recidivism in Maricopa County. The Mighty Glen (talk) 11:01, 29 March 2018 (UTC)


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