Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Matthew Barber (politician)


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The result was delete. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 20:03, 18 August 2017 (UTC)

Matthew Barber (politician)

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WP:BLP of a person notable only as a local district authority councillor and deputy police commissioner on a local police board. As always, the local level of office is not an automatic WP:NPOL pass just because the person exists — to get an article on Wikipedia, a person at this level of government needs to be really well-sourced to a degree of press coverage sizable enough to mark him out as significantly more notable than the norm for people at this level of government. But of the ten sources cited here, six of them are primary sources that cannot support notability at all -- and of the four that are media coverage, all four are deadlinks. Four references wouldn't have been enough to get a local councillor in the door even if they were still live links, because every local councillor who exists could always show just four pieces of media coverage — there's simply not enough substance or sourcing here to deem him notable under NPOL #2 ("local political figures who have received significant press coverage"). Bearcat (talk) 04:30, 11 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of United Kingdom-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 06:03, 11 August 2017 (UTC)
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 * Delete fails WP:NPOLITICIAN.-Umair Aj (talk) 09:25, 11 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete - Essentially the equivalent of an American county commissioner of a smallish county, as near as I can reckon, and therefore fails to meet the Special Notability high bar that we have, by consensus at AfD, for politicians. Carrite (talk) 11:05, 14 August 2017 (UTC)


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