Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Frank Derickson


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The result was delete. &spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 19:09, 30 May 2020 (UTC)

Frank Derickson

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This article fails Wikipedia's notability criteria for politicians. The population of Chester, Illinois is less than 100,000. His tenure, while it sounds productive, ultimately does not have any sort of unusual event that would make him more important than any other local politician. There is nothing else in an online search that indicates general notability guidelines are met indpendent of the bulk of the article covering his time as Mayor. Also, the article heavily borrows from Tips from the Top: Advice for a Young Person from 125 of America's Most Successful People in violation of copyrights.--Mpen320 (talk) 00:12, 23 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Automated comment: This AfD was not correctly transcluded to the log (step 3). I have transcluded it to Articles for deletion/Log/2020 May 23.  —cyberbot I   Talk to my owner :Online 00:28, 23 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions.  userdude 01:32, 23 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Illinois-related deletion discussions.  userdude 01:32, 23 May 2020 (UTC)


 * Delete per nom. Iamreallygoodatcheckers (talk) 11:55, 23 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. The content seems to have written with the intention of WP:PROMO and lack reliable secondary sources. Abishe (talk) 20:39, 23 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete. Chester IL (pop. 8K) is nowhere near large enough to hand an automatic presumption of notability to its mayors in the absence of a properly demonstrated pass of WP:NPOL #2 — but this article is neither substantive nor well-sourced enough to get him over NPOL #2. The content is almost entirely unsourced, in fact: there are just three footnotes in the entire article, of which two are primary sources that are not support for notability at all, and the only one that counts as a genuinely reliable source is a book (admittedly a very famous book) being cited only to support a statement that Frank Derickson was mentioned in it — but being mentioned in a book, without being the subject of any significant content in that book, is not a notability clincher in and of itself if it's the best source you can come up with. Bearcat (talk) 15:46, 24 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete Chester has under 10,000 people. This is an order of magnitude smaller than we might even start to consider it being a place that would make the mayor default notable. This article has existed for 13 years. We need better controlls on article creation. It is way too much easier to create than to remove an article.John Pack Lambert (talk) 13:16, 26 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete fails WP:NPOL and WP:GNG. Best, GPL93 (talk) 21:15, 28 May 2020 (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.