Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Peter Harckham


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The result was   Delete, fails WP:POLITICIAN and WP:GNG. Olaf Davis (talk) 23:35, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

Peter Harckham

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Biographical article about a county-level politician who is running for NY state assembly in 2010, fails WP:Politician. Minimal independent coverage in reliable sources and fails WP:Bio PDCook (talk) 14:03, 29 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep: plenty of coverage in RS which establishes notability, like  . Sarah182 (talk) 18:04, 29 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Note - User Sarah182 is currently blocked for sockpuppetry. See User talk:Sarah182. PDCook (talk) 20:35, 30 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions.  —PDCook (talk) 14:25, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

 Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Timotheus Canens (talk) 15:31, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.


 * Delete. Fails WP:POLITICIAN, and I don't think this coverage is sufficient to get him over the line of WP:BIO. He's quoted in Time Magazine, but is not the subject of the article; the rest is local coverage of varying degrees. --Mkativerata (talk) 19:07, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

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 * Delete. Grossly promotional article ("Harckham has quickly compiled an array of legislative victories") for someone who, in the end, remains a non-notable county-level politician.  Being quoted in Time is nothing; an endless string of non-notable people are quoted all the time in news articles, it's how reporters write (cf. Man on the street).  Other than that I find a modicum of local news coverage but not the significant independent coverage it would take to establish someone as encyclopedically notable under WP:GNG or WP:POLICITICAN #2.   Glenfarclas   ( talk ) 05:55, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete perhaps speedy per unambiguous advertising. Should he ever become notable, no prejudice to recreating as an NPOV article at a later date.  -- Jayron  32  21:27, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
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