Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Martin H. Pomeroy


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The result was delete‎__EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__. Daniel (talk) 23:45, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

Martin H. Pomeroy

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Sum total of the article after eighteen years, much as it has been since its beginning, is "Martin H. Pomeroy was interim Chief of Police of the Los Angeles Police Department between May 7, 2002 and October 26, 2002". Less than six months as an interim police chief is not a basis for encyclopedic notability. BD2412 T 04:41, 22 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Police and California.  BD2412  T 04:41, 22 December 2023 (UTC)


 * Comment - Lots of coverage directly of him in the LA Times going back to the mid 90s (1, 2, 3, 4, 5), but I don't know whether they count as "intellectually independent of each other" as per WP:BASIC.
 * Jonathan Deamer (talk) 07:33, 22 December 2023 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz Read! Talk! 07:01, 29 December 2023 (UTC) Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  Arbitrarily0   ( talk ) 03:12, 5 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Keep. He may only have acted as chief for six months, but he was deputy chief for seven years and there does seem to be sufficient coverage to meet WP:GNG. -- Necrothesp (talk) 11:16, 22 December 2023 (UTC)
 * A deputy chief of any police department will generate some amount of local coverage. Is there any here that is not WP:ROUTINE? BD2412  T 14:34, 27 December 2023 (UTC)
 *  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 *  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Relisting comment: Final relist. I'd love to close this discussion but I don't see a consensus yet. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz Read! Talk! 05:51, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Delete: Interim/acting chief of police that doesn't seem to have done anything noteworthy, not seeing notability. Oaktree b (talk) 15:57, 5 January 2024 (UTC)
 *  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.


 * Delete: Fails GNG and NBIO. Sources in the article and found in BEFORE are database listings/name mentions, nothing that meet WP:IS WP:RS with WP:SIGCOV addressing the subject directly and indepth. Being the intermin chief of police for 5 months, even in Los Angeles the most important and consequential city in the world, doesn't meet ANYBIO, and there are not sources showing this has WP:SIGCOV addressing the subject directly and indepth. They had a role in the police response to the North Hollywood shootout, but I was not able to find sources with SIGCOV about the subject.
 * The single source in the article is dead link primary source redirecting to the main page, probably was to this page . If sources are found, ping me.  // Timothy :: talk  01:11, 14 January 2024 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.