Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Richard J. Baum


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The result was delete. &spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 12:03, 28 June 2018 (UTC)

Richard J. Baum

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Acting directors of US agencies are not notable (it is usually a sign of lack of notability if anything else unless it is acting for a senior cabinet post). Searches turn up virtually nothing that meets WP:N (all local, press release repeats, trivial, etc.) and even if it did, it wouldn't matter in this case as the article is likely commissioned native advertising, and is thus excluded from Wikipedia by WP:NOTSPAM. TonyBallioni (talk) 15:17, 13 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions.  MT Train Talk 15:39, 13 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. North America1000 12:44, 20 June 2018 (UTC)
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 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 12:56, 20 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Virginia-related deletion discussions. ...William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 17:36, 20 June 2018 (UTC)


 * Delete. Being acting director of a government agency can certainly count as a notability claim if the person can be reliably sourced over WP:GNG for it — but nominator is correct that holding the role isn't an automatic guarantee of a Wikipedia article in and of itself. But far more than half the references here are non-notability assisting primary sources, and the ones that are actually GNG-worthy media coverage are just namechecks of his existence in coverage of other things, not coverage about him for the purposes of getting him over GNG as a person. Bearcat (talk) 17:50, 20 June 2018 (UTC)


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