Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gordon Smith Henderson


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The result was soft delete. Based on minimal participation, this uncontroversial nomination is treated as an expired PROD (a.k.a. "soft deletion"). Editors can request the article's undeletion. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont)  10:57, 1 March 2023 (UTC)

Gordon Smith Henderson

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Biography of a lawyer and unelected political candidate, not properly referenced as passing our notability criteria for lawyers or politicians. As always, non-winning election candidates do not get Wikipedia articles for being candidates -- the notability bar for politicians is holding a notable political office, not just running for one, and an unsuccessful election candidate gets into Wikipedia only if he already had preexisting notability for other reasons that would already have gotten him an article anyway. But this isn't really establishing prior notability as a lawyer either, more or less just briefly documenting that he existed as a lawyer while being much more focused on the candidacies overall. And the sourcing isn't cutting it in terms of getting him over WP:GNG, either: three of the seven footnotes are just an elections database verifying his unsuccessful election runs, two are content self-published by directly affiliated organizations, one is just a glancing namecheck of his existence on one page of a book about somebody else, and one completely fails to mention him at all and instead just tangentially verifies the existence of his son (but note also that notability is not inherited, so he isn't notable just because he had notable relatives either.) Nothing here is "inherently" notable enough to exempt him from having to be a subject of real coverage and analysis in real reliable sources. Bearcat (talk) 18:11, 21 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Politicians, Law,  and Canada. Bearcat (talk) 18:11, 21 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete There's a soldier with this exact name who died in 1918, I don't see anything about this person. I was going to say this was a vanity page, but he's been gone for over 50 years, I don't see notability. No sourcing found for a lawyer, not meeting requirements for a politician either. Oaktree b (talk) 01:13, 22 February 2023 (UTC)
 * the KC after his name looked promising, but it isn't: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%27s_Counsel#Ontario Oaktree b (talk) 01:18, 22 February 2023 (UTC)


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