Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/George Breisacher (2nd nomination)


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The result was delete. Barkeep49 (talk) 01:10, 5 May 2020 (UTC)

George Breisacher
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Small-town mayor that only held office for one year. Does not meet WP:NPOL Rusf10 (talk) 16:02, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
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 * Keep - I think we have looked at this before. WP:NPOL allows an exception for WP:GNG, but not qualifying for NPOL still leaves GNG. This pre-google historical historical subject even had a NYT obit, and was know for things other than being just a polititian. Enaugh to keep. Agathoclea (talk) 16:40, 27 April 2020 (UTC)


 * Keep Probably more notable for his banking career, but served in a number of positions, not just mayor. Is well sourced including a NYT obituary. ~ EDDY  ( talk / contribs )~ 16:43, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete. Four of the eight references here are primary sources that are not support for notability at all — Political Graveyard is not a notability-assisting source, and neither is the self-published documentation of any organization that's directly affiliated with the claim (such as sourcing his presidency of a local savings and loan to the annual report of the state division of savings and loan associations, rather than any evidence of real media coverage about his presidency of a savings and loan.) And for media sourcing, what we have is two obituaries, a glancing namecheck of his existence in a list of people, and a local history book: but the book is just being used to footnote the dates of his term in office, not any substantive content that might speak to his potential notability, and having your name appear in a list of appointments to a non-notable job is not a notability clincher, so the only sources that are relevant to establishing whether he's notable enough or not are the obituaries themselves. But one of them is the paid-inclusion obituary in the classifieds section of the town where he grew up, not a journalist-written news article, so it doesn't help at all — and while the other one is in The New York Times, the fact that a person has an obituary in The New York Times still doesn't single-handedly clinch his notability all by itself: even just to claim that he passed GNG, he would still need to have a lot more than just one non-primary and non-trivial source. Bearcat (talk) 17:08, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete As he stands, not notable. The NY Times obit is a blurb and the town he served for was local to the newspaper's catchment area, the Altoona obituary is more about how people from Altoona visited his funeral - having done some historical family research recently, there were very common articles at the time. Does not pass WP:GNG, especially per Bearcat's source analysis. Perhaps other sources exist. SportingFlyer  T · C  03:38, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete with the person being local to the NYT, having a short NYT obit is not a sign of notability. Political Graveyard tries to cover basically everyone who was ever a delegate to a paty national covernetion, which with thousands if not tens of thousands of delegates is not a sign of notability. THe sourcing here is just not enough to show the subject is notable.John Pack Lambert (talk) 13:50, 28 April 2020 (UTC)


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