Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lee May (Georgia politician)


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The result was   delete. j⚛e deckertalk 14:47, 28 July 2014 (UTC)

Lee May (Georgia politician)

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WP:BLP, relying exclusively on a single primary source with no evidence of substantive coverage in reliable ones, of a person notable only as a politician at the county level — which is not a level of government that normally confers notability under WP:POLITICIAN. I suppose he might qualify for a properly written and properly sourced article, but this, as written, is barely more than a prosified version of a résumé — I'm also a bit troubled by the possibility of conflict of interest here, as the creator is User:Emories and the subject is a graduate of Emory University. Delete unless much better sourcing than this, supporting a much more substantively and encyclopedically written article, can be salvaged out of this by close. Bearcat (talk) 00:25, 21 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Weak delete - County executives (sometimes titled county judge or county CEO) are not automatically notable; nor are they always non-notable. Bearian (talk) 19:29, 22 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Having been a county executive isn't Truman's primary notability claim, though — he has an article because he went on to hold a series of higher offices more notable than just a county executive position. If "county executive" is the person's primary notability claim, however, then the resulting article has to be sourced almost infinitely better than this to qualify as notable enough. Bearcat (talk) 19:56, 22 July 2014 (UTC)


 * Delete A much better example of a person notable for being a county executive is Robert A. Ficano, the current county executive of Wayne County, Michigan. Of course since Wayne County has approximately 2 million people it is a different story, and Ficano gets lots of coverage, much of it negative. Kym Worthy has not had many nice things to say about Ficano, for example. That said, the article on May has a vast lack of sourcing, DeKalb County is not equivalent to Wayne County, maybe more Mark Hackel or L. Brooks Patterson level, the executives of the two main suburban counties in Metro Detroit. Though I would say the Patterson article is weak, giving too much attention to an incident early this year when Patterson was attacked for an out-of-context quote from about 1980. The fact that Patterson has been County Executive for 22 years, and was County Prosecutor for 16 before that and before that took a major case to the Supreme Court make him very different than May who actually is only an interim county executive.John Pack Lambert (talk) 05:25, 24 July 2014 (UTC)
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