Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Harold "Butch" Hendershot Jr.


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was   delete. -- Cirt (talk) 02:09, 8 June 2010 (UTC)

Harold "Butch" Hendershot Jr.

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Delete There is nothing indicating the sort of significance required for a Wikipedia article. WP:POLITICIAN says "being an elected local official ... does not guarantee notability", and there is nothing else in the article to suggest notability. Several articles at times-news.com are cited as references, but most of them give only brief mentions of Hendershot, and one does not mention him at all. The article mentions his "now famous" Bricklayers Speech, but various Google searches have failed to find anything relevant except for this Wikipedia article. For example, "Bricklayers Speech" Hendershot produced nothing except the Wikipedia article, Bricklayers Speech Hendershot produced nothing relating to this particular Hendershot except the Wikipedia article, and so it went on with other search terms, so it is questionable how "famous" the speech is. JamesBWatson (talk) 16:42, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
 * I see that Harold "Butch" Hendershot has been speedily deleted under CSD A7 (does not indicate the importance or significance of the subject). I think this article could well be speedily deleted under the same criterion too. JamesBWatson (talk) 16:50, 1 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Maryland-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 20:08, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 20:08, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete Pure puffery. Almost worth preserving as an example of how not to write an encyclopaedia article. Not quite, though... Peridon (talk) 21:28, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete. Non-notable local politician with scant verifiability, just a few articles in his local newspaper (ironically, that paper is owned by the same parent company as the one for which I work). - Realkyhick (Talk to me) 01:53, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete A much too-local politician to be notable. First Light (talk) 04:21, 3 June 2010 (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.