Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Laurier McDonald


 * 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   merge to Rio Rico, Tamaulipas. (non-admin closure) Ron Ritzman (talk) 13:40, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

Laurier McDonald

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Declined ProD. Subject is an attorney who worked on a notable case, though insufficiently notable to warrant a separate article per WP:N.

This appears to be an homage piece written by a family member of the subject. The author was initially contributing under User:Jlauriermcdonald until I tagged the article with ProD and. At that time, that user became idle on the article and a new account, User:Guirisystems was created, declined the ProD and has continued work on developing the piece. (irrelevant) Jim Ward (talk·stalk) 06:18, 4 May 2009 (UTC) 
 * Merge to Rio Rico, Tamaulipas to save any relevant information and references. Most of the article is not about the subject of the article, anyway.  WP:ONEEVENT.  Drawn Some (talk) 06:39, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Law-related deletion discussions.  --  Fabrictramp  |  talk to me  14:44, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, – Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 00:24, 11 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Comment - I concur with Drawn Some's recommendation to identify and merge any relevant material to Rio Rico, Tamaulipas. Jim Ward (talk·stalk) 01:54, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. Does not appear to be notable. I cannot get any confirming refs online.  Although for the 1970s/80s this might not be so surprising I still have a few doubts.  The one and only inline citation is to Texas Monthly, which at least has its contents page online for the relevant issue.  Worryingly, this does not list the cited article.  Two other references are given (not inline), but there is no indication from the article titles that they verify anything other than Rio Rico (as opposed to verifying Mr. McDonald).  In the external links we find an article on the Rio Rico case in The Handbook of Texas Online.  Who is the author of this article?  Why it is one Laurier McDonald.  Sadly Mr. McDonald does not seem to consider his part in the Rio Rico case to be notable enough to mention in his own article!  Sp in ni  ng  Spark  23:01, 17 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, – Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 00:11, 18 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Merge to article on notable topic. ChildofMidnight (talk) 18:46, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Weak merge to Rio Rico. From the article's description of the office of United States Commissioner, it doesn't appear that the office is included in WP:POLITICIAN, and the references mentioned are all related to Rio Rico.  --Philosopher Let us reason together. 22:06, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
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