Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Henry Smolen


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The result was delete. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 18:54, 26 February 2016 (UTC)

Henry Smolen

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Fails WP:POLITICIAN. Held a minor political office and was a failed candidate for a state office. Lack of significant third party coverage. Niteshift36 (talk) 05:39, 18 February 2016 (UTC)


 * Delete as per proposal. --OpenFuture (talk) 15:07, 18 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 17:28, 18 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of New Jersey-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 17:28, 18 February 2016 (UTC)


 * Delete per nomination, unless there's something special we're not seeing from Internet sources. Seems to have been a town commissioner from a specific ward, in a township that is now about 53,000 people; that doesn't seem to meet WP:POLITICIAN.  Came in 9th (if I'm reading it right) in a state senate race. --Closeapple (talk) 17:47, 18 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Municipal councillors in small towns are not automatically notable just for existing, but rather get Wikipedia articles only if you can source and substance them a lot better than this — and unsuccessful candidates for higher office get articles only if they already have some other valid and properly sourced claim of notability independent of the candidacy. Plus it's one of my own personal rules that if you have to source stuff directly to their death notice on the web page of the funeral home that held their funeral, then practically by definition it's unlikely that there's enough media coverage of them to get them past WP:GNG: the deaths of notable people, after all, get written about by the media as news, while the death notice on the funeral home's webpage is normally written by their own family. Bearcat (talk) 21:58, 22 February 2016 (UTC)


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