Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Joel Asarch


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The result was   delete. Jenks24 (talk) 11:46, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

Joel Asarch

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Subject was a New York Supreme Court Justice, which would seem to confer notability; but Google Web and Google News searches for ("joel asarch") yield little beyond his obituary. I found a few blog posts opposing his election to the state Supreme Court, but no evidence that the media had picked up on any kind of controversy. Neither the principal obituary that I found nor his capsule biography at Touro Law School suggests that he did anything controversial or noteworthy. Appears to fail WP:GNG, unless his state Supreme Court position confers it automatically. Ammodramus (talk) 04:05, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
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 * Delete. Subject is a trial court "judge," not an appellate court "justice."  Unlike most other American jurisdictions, the State of New York's trial courts of general jurisdiction are called "New York Supreme Courts"; there are 62 of them.  The state's highest appellate court is called the "New York Court of Appeals," not the New York Supreme Court.  The subject of this article is one of hundreds of New York trial court judges, not one of the seven judges of the state's highest appellate court.  Subject fails the general notability guidelines per WP:GNG and WP:POLITICIAN, inasmuch as there is a lack of significant press coverage in multiple, independent, reliable sources.  Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 13:41, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete. Does not meet the criteria of WP:POLITICIAN since the subject is a local judge, not a member of the State's highest court.Enos733 (talk) 22:33, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete. Fails WP:GNG AdventurousSquirrel (talk) 07:46, 8 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete I failed to find significant coverage of the subject in secondary sources. Given Dirtlawyer1's nice explanation of the distinction between Supreme Courts in New York and in other states, WP:POLITICIAN does not apply either. Ray  Talk 01:24, 10 March 2013 (UTC)
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