Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Frederick S. Goring


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The result was delete. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 21:23, 12 August 2017 (UTC)

Frederick S. Goring

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Minimally sourced biography of a person notable primarily as the (lord) mayor of a small town. The town is not large enough to hand its (lord) mayors an automatic presumption of notability per WP:NPOL, and the article is not reliably sourced well enough to media coverage about him to get over the "who have received significant press coverage" part of our inclusion criteria for local officeholders -- the only source actually present here is a brief namecheck of his existence in a very general history of why this town gets to call its mayors "lord mayor". (And just for the record, it's not for the reasons why a British mayor would get that title.) Politicians at the local level, especially in small towns, don't automatically qualify for articles just because they can be nominally verified as existing; they need to be demonstrated and sourced as significantly more notable than the norm, but nothing here does that.

There's also a conflict of interest here — I won't go into precise detail so I don't out anyone, but I have been able to confirm that Goring did have relatives whose surname corresponds neatly to the usernames of both the article creator and the person who uploaded the "scanned from a family photo album" image in the infobox. (And then after writing that I discovered that the creator openly states the family relationship to Goring right on their own userpage. Leave it to me to make a one-step job five times harder than it needs to be!) Bearcat (talk) 23:22, 5 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Ontario-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 23:24, 5 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 23:24, 5 August 2017 (UTC)


 * Delete Doesn't meet notability as per MOS:CA. EncyclopediaUpdaticus (talk) 02:17, 6 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Our prolific Canadian editor appears to be right. Bearian (talk) 13:49, 8 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete. Fails WP:NPOLITICIAN.-Umair Aj (talk) 09:22, 9 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete WP:NPOL Quinton Feldberg (talk) 02:15, 12 August 2017 (UTC)


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