Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/George Leventhal


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The result was delete. Vanamonde (talk) 18:44, 13 August 2018 (UTC)

George Leventhal

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Poorly sourced BLP of a person notable only for serving on a county council. As always, county councillors do not get an automatic free pass over WP:NPOL #2 just because they exist -- at this level of office, the notability test is the ability to source the councillor well enough to deem him special, not just the ability to nominally reference the fact that he exists. But this article cites just six references (one of which is unnecessarily reduplicated as two separate footnotes for no apparent reason), of which two are primary sources that do not assist notability at all, one is a blog, one is his purely routine "candidate positions on the issues" questionnaire that every candidate gets to answer, and one just namechecks his existence as a giver of soundbite in an article about something else. There's literally only one reference here that's both reliable and substantively about him for the purposes of establishing that he would pass WP:GNG, and it's from a local community pennysaver in his own county -- so it doesn't singlehandedly vault him over GNG all by itself as the only solid source in play. This is simply not good enough sourcing to make a county councillor notable. Bearcat (talk) 17:22, 5 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 17:25, 5 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Maryland-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 17:25, 5 August 2018 (UTC)


 * Delete Per nom, fails WP:NPOL and WP:GNG.
 * Delete county council members are not default notable, and nothing else adds up to the level of coverage needed to show notability.John Pack Lambert (talk) 23:04, 11 August 2018 (UTC)


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