Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Regina Lewis-Ward


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The result was delete. Michig (talk) 08:02, 30 December 2018 (UTC)

Regina Lewis-Ward

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WP:BLP of a politician "notable" only as a smalltown municipal councillor and non-winning candidate for election to the state legislature. As always, neither of these is an WP:NPOL pass -- a person has to win election to the state house, not just run and lose, to clinch notability from the state legislature election, and city councillors are presumed notable only in a small elite tier of major metropolitan global cities on the order of New York City or Chicago. But this article is not referenced anywhere near well enough to make her a special case over and above most other city councillors or most other non-winning candidates for office -- it's referenced to a mix of primary sources and blogs that do absolutely nothing whatsoever to establish notability, routine local coverage in the local community pennysaver of a volume and depth that every city councillor everywhere could always show, and glancing namechecks of her existence in extralocal coverage that isn't about her. As always, this is not how you make a smalltown city councillor notable enough to claim "special case" status among a not otherwise notable class of topic. Bearcat (talk) 06:46, 23 December 2018 (UTC)
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 * Comment created by apparent SPA valereee (talk) 10:10, 23 December 2018 (UTC)


 * Delete - Lacks the significant coverage in multiple independent reliable sources to establish notability. Much of the sourcing is either primary or from the Henry Harold, a local community paper.  The references in most cases do not provide a URL, but following up on some of them, the references are very thin  indeed.  For example, reference #9 from Talking Points Memo is a shining example of a passing mention (see for yourself).  References #11 to #15 are used to source a single sentence which has nothing to do with Lewis-Ward.  Seventeen references for a short bio article may seem like a goodly quantity, but an examination of the quality makes it clear that they do nothing much to support notability. -- Whpq (talk) 14:00, 23 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete Fails WP:NPOL....William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 11:08, 25 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete I've gone through and checked a couple sources (the ones that are now linked) and they're both bare mentions in short pieces in community newspapers. Frankly I find it absolutely irritating that the page creator didn't link to sources. It seems intentionally misleading. Most of these aren't sources that are difficult to find online. It feels like actively deciding AGAINST linking to make checking more difficult, which I find reprehensible. If Regina Ward-Lewis were truly notable, surely the author would have WANTED to make it easy to check sources. I may try to check a couple of the clearly reliable sources referenced just to be on the safe side, but I'm feeling like between the SPA and the not linking to sources, this is a bad faith situation. valereee (talk) 14:08, 25 December 2018 (UTC) ETA: okay, I checked (and linked to) the Atlanta Journal-Constitution story and one of the NYT stories about the Canarsie protests. She of course isn't even mentioned in the NYT article, it's just a story about the protests, and the mention in the AJC is a just a bare announcement that there would be a runoff between these two women.
 * Delete Unelected candidates for state house are not notable.John Pack Lambert (talk) 15:10, 28 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete  non notable based on her failing WP:NPOL and the lack of GNG passing sources to establish notability.  JC7V (talk) 20:27, 28 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete per nomination. -The Gnome (talk) 14:43, 29 December 2018 (UTC)


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