Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Noel D'Souza


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The result was delete. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 22:17, 30 May 2017 (UTC)

Noel D'Souza

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This appears to be partly a hoax or patent nonsense about a real person, and an effort to squeeze in just enough fact to avoid speedy deletion. There is no indication that the real Noel D'Souza, as mayor of a small town, is notable, but this is blather. Robert McClenon (talk) 22:31, 23 May 2017 (UTC)


 * Delete Although I dispute your assumption that the City of Randwick is a "small town", D'Souza as a subject does not even come close to satisfying notability. This 'page' however (using that term lightly), is borderline vandalism.Siegfried Nugent (talk) 13:22, 24 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions.   CAPTAIN RAJU  (✉)   04:13, 24 May 2017 (UTC)
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 * Delete. I'd also dispute the characterization of Randwick as a small town — a population of 145K is more than enough that a mayor would be considered notable if he or she were properly sourced, because the inclusion bar for mayors is nowhere near as restrictive as the one for city councillors is. But I do agree with the nominator's characterization of the article's content — apart from the statement that he exists, all that's here is his purported involvement in a human rights campaign to prevent discrimination on the basis of pupil size. But that kind of discrimination isn't a thing in the first place — for one thing, pupils routinely dilate or contract in response to lighting conditions, and apart from a couple of very rare medical conditions no human being has significantly different-sized pupils than any other. So that's absolutely a pile of bullshit. And the sole source present here is the search results for his name on a search engine, which mostly brings up primary sources. So no prejudice against recreation if it can be written and sourced properly, but this version is a clear candidate for the WP:TNT treatment regardless of his notability or lack thereof — even if somebody were willing and able to tackle cleaning it up right away, we'd still have to REVDEL the current content out of the visible edit history. Bearcat (talk) 14:24, 26 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete This article is probably quite literally a joke inside of a hoax. Though eventualism shouldn't be applied to BLPs, the fact that I tagged/categorized the article probably wouldn't hurt if there's any hope for it at all (and I don't think there is at the moment). I dream of horses (My talk page) (My edits) @ 09:14, 27 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Comment - Okay. At 145,000 people, Randwick is a medium-sized city.  Mayors of medium-sized cities often meet general notability.  This doesn't say anything notable about him, except for some bad jokes.  (At least I think that they are bad jokes, when on the Internet no one can see you smile.)  Robert McClenon (talk) 16:21, 28 May 2017 (UTC)


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