Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Robert D. Parks (2nd nomination)


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The result was delete. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 06:04, 12 October 2016 (UTC)

Robert D. Parks
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Delete. Minimally sourced article, written like a bio-blurb on a campaign brochure rather than an encyclopedia article, about a person notable only for serving on a school board. First discussion was a decade ago, but WP:NPOL has been tightened up considerably since then and serving on a school board does not confer notability under the rules that pertain now -- and the discussion hinged a little too strongly on the idea that getting coverage in the local media somehow made him special, which is also an argument that consensus now deprecates in the case of local politicians (all school board trustees always get local coverage in their local media, but that's not enough to make them (inter)nationally notable.) And furthermore, this article doesn't actually cite any of the claimed coverage -- it parks (no pun intended) its sourcing on primary sources, and just links to offsite directories of media coverage rather than actually citing any, and even those directories primarily contain glancing namechecks of his existence in coverage about other things rather than coverage that's substantively about him. This is not the type of sourcing, or the substance, that it takes to credibly claim that a school board trustee is more notable than the norm. Bearcat (talk) 04:39, 4 October 2016 (UTC)
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 * Delete, a minor local politician, a far cry of passing WP:POLITICIAN. Nsk92 (talk) 15:04, 4 October 2016 (UTC)


 * Delete per WP:PROMO; strictly a vanity page. Nothing compelling here. K.e.coffman (talk) 01:58, 10 October 2016 (UTC)


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