Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John H. Lee (Connecticut)


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The result was delete. &spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 17:18, 18 December 2019 (UTC)

John H. Lee (Connecticut)

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Lee was a town warden for one year. This is not a position that implies notability. The sourcing is run of the mill, and in many ways the article reads more like a resume than an encyclopedic article. John Pack Lambert (talk) 15:37, 11 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. ...William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 15:40, 11 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Connecticut-related deletion discussions. ...William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 15:40, 11 December 2019 (UTC)


 * There are other wardens of Norwalk we have articles on. One example is George S. Gregory, where the only sources on the document at US census records. There are many more articles here that need to be nominated for deletion.John Pack Lambert (talk) 16:05, 11 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete; can't find anything that looks like it constitutes significant coverage. The only source I could find which could is this paper which I cannot access. Can't find anything in any newspaper archive that I can access.  J 947 &thinsp;(c) , at 17:46, 11 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete. Being warden of a town that had a population of just 17K in his time, and even today is still below 100K, is not an automatic inclusion freebie that guarantees him a Wikipedia article just because he existed, but the referencing here is one short biographical blurb in a book and three primary source genealogical documents. So the book is fine, but not enough to get him over NPOL #2 (where the bar is "significant press coverage") all by itself if it's the only reliable source you can show, and the FamilySearch documents aren't support for notability at all. When it comes to making local politicians notable enough for inclusion here, the test is the ability to write substantive information about their political career: their impact on the city's development, specific projects they supported, and on and so forth — the ability to locate his birthdate and the name of his wife are not notability claims. Bearcat (talk) 14:57, 12 December 2019 (UTC)


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