Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Henri Serruys


 * 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 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. Liz Read! Talk! 18:45, 27 August 2022 (UTC)

Henri Serruys

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Fails WP:SIGCOV and WP:BIO. Been on the cat:nn list for +10 years. Never been updated.  scope_creep Talk  15:45, 20 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Politicians and Belgium.  Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 15:48, 20 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete. Mayors don't get automatic inclusion freebies just for existing as mayors — the notability test for a mayor is not established by writing a bit of unsourced biographical background, it's established by writing and sourcing a substantive article about the political significance of his mayoralty: specific things he did as mayor, specific accomplishments he achieved as mayor, specific effects he had on the development of the city, and on and so forth. But this is just basic biographical background with none of the type of content that's required, and the list of references comprises a genealogy (which is not a notability-assisting source) and a title that doesn't provide enough information to even establish whether it's a book, a newspaper or magazine article, another user-generated genealogy, or what — even a Google search for that title only brings up various language Wikipedias and wikimirrors, with no independent verification of what type of source the title actually represents. Which means it isn't enough to cover off notability all by itself if we can't even locate basic verification of what it actually is — the primary reason we cite sources at all is so that they can be located and consulted if somebody needs to verify what they said or just wants to learn more, so a source clearly can't support notability if it's not locatable. Bearcat (talk) 13:48, 21 August 2022 (UTC)


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