Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John Locco


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The result was delete.  Sandstein  14:41, 1 June 2018 (UTC)

John Locco

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This person has certainly been around, as evidenced by the large number of citations in this article. Nevertheless, only one of those sources discusses this man in a nontrivial manner, and I have not found any further sources on the web. Fails the plural part of "sources" in WP:GNG. —Compassionate727 (T·C) 15:08, 25 May 2018 (UTC) --Gulfzero Charlie (talk)Gulfzero Charlie~ —Preceding undated comment added 23:11, 25 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete – At this time. Poorly written article, horrible sources and though, supposedly a multitude of references, I question 99.9% of the cites.  In that this involves a WP:BLP I fall back to policy which states; “…Biographical material about a living individual that is not compliant with this policy should be improved and rectified; if this is not possible, then it should be removed. If the entire page is substantially of poor quality, primarily containing contentious material that is unsourced or poorly sourced, then it may be necessary to delete the entire page as an initial step.”  As such delete..  ShoesssS Talk 18:02, 25 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete mayor of a minor place.John Pack Lambert (talk) 22:23, 25 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep Locco is not just a Mayor he the founder of the Brighton Icebergers, the man who ran for council to prevent the Brighton Baths closure he is someone who stands up for what he believes in and wants his voice heard such as in this video in link shows https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVXE22-6aS0 --Gulfzero Charlie (talk) 23:23, 25 May 2018 (UTC)Gulfzero Charlie.
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions.  MT Train Talk 07:39, 26 May 2018 (UTC)
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 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 07:41, 26 May 2018 (UTC)


 * Delete while the article is source-bombed, none of the references make any showing of notability, apart from possibly The Age feature article, which is about the swimming club as much as it is about him. Doesn't get across the line as a mayor, either, since he seems primarily notable for the swim club. Fails WP:GNG. SportingFlyer  talk  21:10, 26 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete. We have a rule about reference bombing, wherein a person is made to seem as notable as possible by augmenting the number of sources without regard to the quality of them — but that's exactly bass ackward, because the quality of the references, not their number, is what determines whether a person passes GNG or not. The sources here are not solid or notability-supporting ones on the whole — there are far too many primary sources and far too few reliable ones — and none of what Gulfzero Charlie pointed out about Locco above constitutes notability at all. Founding a local swimming group is not a notability claim in and of itself, fighting the closure of a local recreational facility is not a notability claim in and of itself, standing up for what you believe in is not a notability claim in and of itself, and being mayor of an Australian suburb is not a notability claim in and of itself, if the sourcing available to actually support an article on any of those grounds is this poor. Bearcat (talk) 19:02, 28 May 2018 (UTC)


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