Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Richard Thornton (politician)


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was   delete. Filest (aktl) 09:42, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

Richard Thornton (politician)

 * – ( View AfD View log  •  )

A PROD tag was removed without discernable improvement. This individual doesn't appear to meet WP:POLITICIAN and there are no other reasonable sources of notability suggested; no reliable sources that would allow anyone to verify the assertions have been provided. Accounting4Taste: talk 00:20, 25 March 2010 (UTC) This gentleman was my grandfather, everything i have stated is correct and i would appreciate it if you left this alone thankyou. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Julian805 (talk • contribs) 01:01, 25 March 2010 (UTC) Where i live his name is very well remembered, in fact if you ask anyone in our local county his name they will no who he was and what he did. It would be a great shame to delete this page as I know local schools and the local museum are using it for research. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.134.7.133 (talk) 14:15, 25 March 2010 (UTC) I have added as many refrences as i can find on the internet. I created the page because schools where looking information on him and this was the best way to do it. It is 100% accurate and will be a great shame to lose it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Julian805 (talk • contribs) 14:34, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment Deleteas failing to satisfy WP:BIO. Found two sources at Google Book search and added to the article. One, a book on the Orange Order quotes him on two pages. The other, a snippet from U.S. News and World report, says he was a Protestant leader in Ulster. A bit slim with respect to notability. Edison (talk) 00:26, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete - I'm not sure what counts as notability on those parts, but he sure doesn't sound sufficiently notable for our purposes here. Rklawton (talk) 01:31, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment - we call that "local" or "regional" notability, and that is exactly not sufficient for inclusion in Wikipedia. Rklawton (talk) 14:17, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Northern Ireland-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 15:30, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 15:30, 25 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Delete : as per nom fails WP:POLITICIAN and looks like a WP:COI Codf1977 (talk) 15:38, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete as it stands. He has more notability than your typical councillor, but it is still way short of the notability standards for people. Julian805, if you want to demonstrate notability you may need to search a bit further than the internet because he was clearly active pre-internet. Was he written about in books/newspapers at the time. If so, that may make him notable. But we can't just indiscriminately accept articles based on one person's assertions that it's true and important. All such claims must be verifiable. If you really want local schools to have access to online information about him, you can always try another wiki. Chris Neville-Smith (talk) 17:10, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete: He wildly fails both WP:POLITICIAN and WP:GNG. Notability is not inherited by being friends of nobility.  My grandfather was a member of the Royal Irish Constabulary, and that does not make him notable, either. Bearian (talk) 22:33, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete - fails all suggested possible categories of notability. -- Orange Mike  &#x007C;   Talk  20:09, 31 March 2010 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.