Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Harris Burgoyne


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The result was redirect to List of mayors of Green Bay, Wisconsin. Consensus that he is not notable, redirecting per AtD. (non-admin closure) Devonian Wombat (talk) 02:44, 19 January 2021 (UTC)

Harris Burgoyne

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A biography with only a single source (which failed verification) since creation in 2010. A WP:BEFORE search turned up a census record (hxxps://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/LRKP-DZ8/harris-burgoyne-1911-1994 - a WP:UGC site) and two WP scrapes (hxxps://peoplepill.com/people/harris-burgoyne/ and hxxps://amp.google-wiki.info/27807148/1/harris-burgoyne.html); but nothing WP:RS. The Silver Beaver Award is not enough to confer notability - it has been awarded more than 50,000 times. Fails WP:NPOL, WP:NBIO and WP:GNG.

One or other of the above links triggered the spam filter, so I've changed https to hxxps. Narky Blert (talk) 05:04, 11 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 06:43, 11 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Wisconsin-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 06:43, 11 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Illinois-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 06:44, 11 January 2021 (UTC)


 * Delete mayors of polities this size are not default notable. Nor are winners of the Silver Beaver award. I had not idea it was handed out so often. The sourcing is no where near sufficient. Census records are primary sources, and should not be used at all to directly create articles.John Pack Lambert (talk) 18:55, 11 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Redirect >> List of mayors of Green Bay, Wisconsin as is appropriate.Djflem (talk) 21:46, 11 January 2021 (UTC)
 * (nom) Redirect per Djflem (and remove the link from the target). Narky Blert (talk) 05:19, 12 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete, obviously without prejudice against recreation in the future if somebody can do better. At the time this was first created, we extended an automatic "inherent" notability freebie to all mayors of any city with a population that exceeded 50,000 — which Green Bay obviously does — but that's since been deprecated, and making a mayor notable enough for inclusion now requires getting him over WP:GNG on the sourcing. Additionally, what's required is substantive content about his mayoralty — specific things he did as mayor, specific projects he spearheaded, specific effects his leadership had on the development of the city, etc. — and the ability to verify biographical trivia like where he went to high school and the names of his family members is not how you do it. But this is the latter, not the former, and its sole footnote is a directory that is not a notability-making source. To be fair, a person who served as mayor in the 1970s is not going to have sources that Google well — they'll mainly have to be retrieved from newspaper archives, microfilms and/or books, rather than sitting out in the open on the web — but to get a mayor kept in 2021 the necessary sources have to be shown to exist, not just presumed to probably exist. Bearcat (talk) 17:26, 13 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Redirect as suggested. I can verify the he was a mayor 47 years ago, but that's it. No WP:SIGCOV. Bearian (talk) 01:20, 15 January 2021 (UTC)


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