Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jonathan Melton


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The result was delete‎__EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__. Liz Read! Talk! 22:40, 18 August 2023 (UTC)

Jonathan Melton

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See Reliable sources noticeboard on Attorney at Law magazine. This is a local city councilman and a run-of-the-mill attorney with no significant coverage that I can find. Most of the sources used are self, or local coverage; the notability seems to have rested on the Attorney at Law magazine link. Sandy Georgia (Talk)  22:40, 11 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: People, Politicians,  and Law. Sandy Georgia  (Talk)  22:40, 11 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of North Carolina-related deletion discussions.  Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 23:11, 11 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete yeah, with the exception of the Attorney at Law magazine and source #3, there's no sources outside of the local area the lawyer serves in. Sure, there's a Axios source but shocker! it's in the local area and doesn't have significant coverage of the subject, like some of the sources in the article. Delete per nominator. Tails   Wx  (they/them) 03:52, 13 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Noting that "source #3" is not independent; Melton was a client of that targeted marketing firm. Sandy Georgia (Talk)  02:05, 16 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Keep as he is one of the first openly LGBT people to serve on the Raleigh City Council, which governs a major Southern city. -- Willthacheerleader18 (talk) 14:51, 13 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Noting that Willthacheerleader18 created the article. Sandy Georgia (Talk)  02:07, 16 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete non-notable local councillor - all of the coverage on him is local, not otherwise notable. SportingFlyer  T · C  17:08, 13 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete. "One of the first two [insert underrepresented minority group] to serve on city council in his own city, while not even close to being the first nationwide" is not a notability claim that automatically makes a city councillor more special than every other city councillor by itself — we would need to see a reason why his sphere of notability had expanded to encompass more than just his own city, which that isn't. And the article is based entirely on a mixture of primary sources, which aren't support for notability at all, and run of the mill local coverage in the local alt-weekly, which isn't enough to claim that he would pass WP:GNG on that basis alone. Bearcat (talk) 13:54, 14 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete as nom. Sandy Georgia  (Talk)  02:06, 16 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Hi @SandyGeorgia your nomination is already a !vote, this should be struck. Regards, Goldsztajn (talk) 12:30, 16 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the cluestick :). Struck, Sandy Georgia (Talk)  12:32, 16 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete. Our subject's main claim to fame seems to be that he "is the one of the first two openly gay people to serve on the Raleigh City Council." But that's not enough, thankfully, in our day and age. This is about a local councillor without enough sources out there to support independent notability. -The Gnome (talk) 12:43, 16 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete: This subject does not meet WP:GNG or WP:NPOL per sources here and elsewhere. User:Let'srun 01:50, 17 August 2023 (UTC)


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