Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Edward C. Ford, Jr.


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The result was delete. &spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 22:50, 2 May 2020 (UTC)

Edward C. Ford, Jr.

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Insufficient notability for this councillor. Claim to notability is "youngest African-American Republican in the United States to hold public office" and "youngest person ever elected to the (Middleton) Council". The latter is too local to signify, the former does not appear to have received any widespread coverage. Available sources in order are 1) local news coverage, 2) local news coverage that does not mention subject, 3) administrative list entry, 4) University publication. - Unless some substantial third-party coverage is unearthed at more than purely local level, he does not seem to qualify under WP:GNG or WP:NPOLITICIAN. -- Elmidae (talk · contribs) 18:03, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Elmidae (talk · contribs) 18:03, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Connecticut-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 18:15, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
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 * Delete - Subject of article is a politician but does not satisfy WP:NPOL. Celestina007 (talk) 18:23, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete The youngest x to do y claims are getting ridiculous. All the more so because in much of the US municiapl offices are non-partisan so many of the people in their early 20s getting elected to public office are able to avoid publicizing their policial party. It is also unclear if it is claiming that Ford was the youngest African-American Republican office holder in 2017 (possible) or ever (a claim that would need actually citation, especially since prior to 1930 virtually every African-American who held office was a Republican).John Pack Lambert (talk) 14:24, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete. Middletown CT is not a global city for the purposes of securing the "inherent" notability of its city councillors — and people are not automatically more special than their colleagues just because they're younger or older (or fatter or thinner) than the rest of them, or just because they happen to be people of colour, or even because you staple several of those signifiers together so that you can manufacture an inorganic claim of national firstness that he didn't actually get any nationalized attention for. To make him notable enough for a Wikipedia article, what would need to be demonstrated is that he has an unusual depth, range and volume of reliable source coverage, marking him out as much more special than the norm for this level of significance — but three hits of local coverage and an article in the student newspaper of his own alma mater is not enough to do that. Bearcat (talk) 15:55, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete Subject does not satisfy WP:NPOLITICIAN. Nika2020 (talk) 19:44, 30 April 2020 (UTC)


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