Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Howard Gentry Jr. (2nd nomination)


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The result was delete‎__EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__. Hey man im josh (talk) 17:51, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

Howard Gentry Jr.
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WP:BLP of a local political officeholder, not properly sourced as passing WP:NPOL #2. The attempted notability claim here is that he's a clerk of the county courts and vice-mayor of a city, which are not "inherently" notable offices -- they're offices where he could get an article if he were shown to clear WP:GNG on the basis of a lot of media coverage, but not ones where he would be automatically eligible for a Wikipedia article just because he exists. But five of the eight footnotes here are primary sources that are not support for notability at all (stuff self-published by his employer, his own LinkedIn, etc.), and another is just a glancing namecheck of his existence in a biography of his father -- which leaves just two footnotes that actually represent reliable source media coverage about him, which is not nearly enough to clinch the notability of a purely local political figure all by itself. And notability is not inherited, so he isn't automatically entitled to have an article just because his father has one either. Also note that another article about the same person was previously deleted per Articles for deletion/Howard Gentry Jr., but this article is different in form (but not really in substance) from the old version and the prior discussion was a soft delete due to minimal participation, so I wouldn't feel comfortable speedying it as a G4. Bearcat (talk) 14:45, 15 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Politicians and Tennessee. Bearcat (talk) 14:45, 15 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Delete per Bearcat and the last AfD - he fails WP:GNG and WP:NPOL, and there's some puffery. SportingFlyer  T · C  16:20, 15 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Radio, Finance,  and Law.  WC  Quidditch   ☎   ✎  17:07, 15 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Delete per the above. The sources in the article do not come close to the WP:GNG bar that consensus says local politicians of this sort must meet.  Eluchil404 (talk) 01:00, 22 April 2024 (UTC)


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