Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Malcolm Hebert


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The result was delete. ~ Amory  (u • t • c) 01:33, 21 February 2019 (UTC)

Malcolm Hebert

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While the article appears to be in-depth the subject simply does not meet WP:GNG and his elected position is not substantial enough to meet WP:NPOL. Pretty much all the sources that are used are primary or not : including a high school yearbook, his obit, his wife's obit, another Mayor's obit, a link to the dean's office of Cal State Maritime (which has no mention of Hebert at all), PDF's of lawsuits, A dead link to the Louisiana Marshalls association, an "in memoriam" page for a deceased Louisiana judge with no mention of the subject, and the history of a trade school (again no mention of Hebert). Additionally, "source" one isn't even a source but rather a note by the page's author about the function of Louisiana city commissioners. GPL93 (talk) 20:23, 13 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Louisiana-related deletion discussions.  ~Ruyaba~   {talk}  20:29, 13 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Bakazaka (talk) 20:44, 13 February 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete. Article was created by a banned user, who was banned in part because of his unyielding persistence in using weak sources to overstate the encyclopedic notability of smalltown municipal officeholders in Louisiana. Indeed, this cites mostly primary sources (why in blazes would anybody ever think a high school yearbook was a notability-building source?), and even what little bit is actually media coverage isn't helping either — even that is mostly tangential coverage of other people or things, with only a single obituary actually being about him. But as always, the existence of one obituary in the local newspaper is not enough to make a person notable just for serving as a smalltown parks commissioner. Sucks that we're still coping with Billy Hathorn's handiwork four years later, but since he did occasionally tackle a few genuine notables I guess it wouldn't be appropriate to just do a blanket mass deletion blitz on everything he ever did. Bearcat (talk) 22:48, 13 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete fails WP:GNG, WP:NPOL. SportingFlyer  T · C  23:31, 14 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete Clearly fails WP:GNG. Reads like a long-drawn out obituary, as many of Bill Hathorn's articles do. Penale52 (talk) 11:59, 15 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete does not meet the notability guidelines for politicians.John Pack Lambert (talk) 23:22, 16 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete Fails Politician notability guideline for inclusion. Lapablo (talk) 00:40, 18 February 2019 (UTC)


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