Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jordan Brandman


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was delete. Consensus is that subject is not notable per WP:NPOL, coverage is highly local and likely to remain so. Why the relatively long closing statement? Essentially to state that I'm willing to restore this should, per Vanamonde, an addition indpendent (non-local) source be discovered. 78.26 (spin me / revolutions) 19:31, 17 September 2018 (UTC)

Jordan Brandman

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Orphan article about a non-notable City Council Member. Sources used are primarily incidental mentions or even non-mentions used to make article subject look notable when he is not. (Additionally, many of the statements fail to follow the neutral point of view policy and are not supported by the refs attached to them.)

These refs for statements in this article don't even mention Jordan Brandman:
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These refs mention Brandman only incidentally (like noting which Councilmember voted which way):
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These refs, all from a single source (Voice of OC), mention Brandman but do so alongside everyone else running for Council:
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These refs, all from a single source (Voice of OC), do provide coverage of Brandman:
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This ref is not a reliable source, as it is Ballotpedia:
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These refs are primary sources from the City of Anaheim:
 * Ref 1 (his biography):
 * Ref 10 (heavy interpretation, violating the "No Original Research" rule):

These refs are offline primary source documents that appear to be heavily interpreted which would violate the "No Original Research" rule:
 * Ref 12: "Sworn statement obtained via PRA."
 * Ref 14: "City Council meeting minutes July 26, 2016; legal documents obtained via PRA." OCNative (talk) 00:14, 10 September 2018 (UTC)
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 * Delete. Anaheim is not a large enough city to hand all of its city councillors an automatic presumption of notability under WP:NPOL #2 — that privilege accrues only to internationally prominent global cities like New York City or Chicago or Toronto or Los Angeles, not to every city that exists. But the sourcing here — which consists mainly of primary sources and a community hyperlocal rather than any strong evidence of WP:GNG-worthy media coverage beyond his hometown alone — is nowhere near solid enough to deem him a special case over and above most other not inherently notable city councillors in non-global cities. Bearcat (talk) 17:56, 10 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Weak delete. There's a lot of coverage from the Orange County Register and other local media, which I'm not giving much weight to. There's also this piece analyzing his election. I'm not finding much else, so I'm going with "delete" at the moment, but if another source is found I could be persuaded to switch. Vanamonde (talk) 14:59, 17 September 2018 (UTC)


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