Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Richard Lambert Fearby


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The result was   delete. j⚛e deckertalk 15:13, 29 May 2014 (UTC)

Richard Lambert Fearby

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Non-notable local local politician, fails WP:POLITICIAN. The article seems likely to have been sourced from https://sites.google.com/site/fearbyrichardlambert/ which is not a relaible source. The article asserts that he was an MP (Member of Parliament), but I have checked F. W. S. Craig's election results books (I own the complete set) and can find no listing of any Fearby from 1832 to 1949, even as a candidate. I searched the archive The Times for "Fearby and Morpeth", and found 2 short mentions mentions in the "News in Brief" section (subscription required)
 * 1) 25 Feb 1922 Fined for not declaring election expenses
 * 2) 3 May 1917 Former mayor charged with assaulting him.

That's nowhere near the WP:BASIC test of "significant coverage in multiple published secondary sources" Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 13:13, 21 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete - at the time he was mayor, the borough was not even chartered/incorporated. Bearian (talk) 15:13, 21 May 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for your comments and obviously painstaking research. I can assure you that Richard Lambert Fearby was the mayor in 1919, having seen photographs, newspaper articles (including a one in the Railway Magazine of 1919) and in fact, there is a plaque containing his name in Morpeth Town Hall in Northumberland. The reference to expenses and the assault are both interesting and I was not aware of either of these. Many thanks once again for your concern, which I can assure you is not on solid grounds. With kind regards, — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.28.97.146 (talk) 16:28, 21 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Reply. See WP:POLITICIAN. The fact that we can verify a few interesting snippets out him does not make notable ... and unless a topic meets Wikipedia's notability criteria, we should not have an article on it. -- Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 23:03, 21 May 2014 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of England-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 19:04, 21 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 19:04, 21 May 2014 (UTC)
 * IP, mayors do not automatically qualify for Wikipedia articles just for being mayors, especially in small or rural municipalities. In actual fact, the standard for mayors in England is that the 16 directly elected mayors in England and Wales are the only ones who are automatically granted a presumption of notability just for the fact of being a mayor — any other mayor in England lives or dies on the strength or weakness of reliable source coverage about them, and does not get to keep a poorly sourced or unsourced article that doesn't offer any substantive evidence of how they were a notable mayor. This article as written does not properly demonstrate that Fearby passes the standards of WP:POLITICIAN, and therefore it's a delete. Bearcat (talk) 00:41, 27 May 2014 (UTC)
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