Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Robert G. Abboud


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The result was delete. &spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 20:51, 28 June 2020 (UTC)

Robert G. Abboud
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Local politician that fails to meet notability guidelines both as a politician and as a figure. His tenure in Barrington Hills, Illinois had no unusual events to warrant significantly different coverage than any other suburban mayor. His congressional campaign fails the Christine O'Donnell test. Finally, I could only find a single patent to his name which while impressive (I will likely never patent anything or hold public office despite those both being cool things to do) does not meet notability. This discussion will be added to the Illinois-related and the politicians-related deletion discussions.Mpen320 (talk) 02:37, 20 June 2020 (UTC)
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 * Delete. Barrington Hills is not a significant enough place to confer an automatic inclusion freebie on all of its mayors just for being mayors per se, being an unsuccessful candidate for higher office does not bolster his notability at all, and the article is referenced nowhere close to well enough to get him over the "more notable than the norm" bar that people at these levels of public prominence would have to clear. Bearcat (talk) 11:20, 20 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Weak Keep Barrington Hills is a pretty ritzy Chicago suburb. I like the rather compact yet robust biographical sketch. If the cn issues could be resolved this would be a clearer Keep.-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 22:59, 21 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete The sourcing of the article is pretty terrible. He fails WP:NPOL for being a small suburban mayor and an unelected candidate for higher office and appears to fail WP:GNG as well. SportingFlyer  T · C  23:59, 21 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete He was "village president" of a place with less than 5,000 people. That is never going to make anyone notable. Running for and loosing the congressional election in no way adds one iota to his notability. If we had article on everyone who had been head of every place with over 4,000 people, that would create a huge increase in our number of articles, at least doubling our number of articles on living people, probably more than that, and creating such a huge mess of articles that we would never keep them up to date.John Pack Lambert (talk) 18:16, 23 June 2020 (UTC)


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