Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rodger Koopman


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The result was   delete. Cirt (talk) 12:38, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

Rodger Koopman

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 * Delete. Unremarkable city councilor, fails WP:POLITICIAN. Very little independent referencing. WWGB (talk) 02:49, 21 June 2009 (UTC)

This article meets Wikepedia guidelines under these criteria:

1. Major local political figures who have received significant press coverage.[7] Generally speaking, mayors are likely to meet this criterion,

===> as are members of the main citywide government or council of a major metropolitan city. Raleigh is one of the fastest growing cities in the US and often referenced in national newspapers.

1. Just being an elected local official, or an unelected candidate for political office, does not guarantee notability, although such people can still be notable if they meet the primary notability criterion of "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject of the article."

===> The News & Observer, Raleigh's and Wake County's main newspapers has written over 100 articles either about this polician or including him as relevant to major policy decisions made by Raleigh's city council. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chrissinclair (talk • contribs) —  Chrissinclair (talk&#32;• contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of North Carolina-related deletion discussions.  —WWGB (talk) 02:57, 21 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions.  —WWGB (talk) 02:57, 21 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment: I'm going to reserve judgement for now, but I'd like to point out that there might be 100 articles from local papers, but only 3 sentences in the article deal with his political office. It is almost all about his non-notable military career and non-notable business career. If anything, this needs a major re-write to demonstrate his notability. Also the article was authored by a WP:SPA.Niteshift36 (talk) 03:18, 21 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Comment The page creator should've been merely reverted for removing the CSD tag. Since no admin declined the speedy...  Enigma msg  06:56, 21 June 2009 (UTC)
 * The original speedy nomination was for copyvio, with content being lifted from . The author rewrote the article so copyvio no longer applied. WWGB (talk) 13:47, 21 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Can you do that? I tried that once and when I restored it, an admin told me that removing it signified that they contested it. Go figure. Niteshift36 (talk) 07:21, 21 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Perhaps you're confusing CSD with PROD? See the fourth paragraph of Criteria for speedy deletion.  Enigma msg  07:31, 21 June 2009 (UTC)
 * You might be right. Niteshift36 (talk) 08:28, 21 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Living people-related deletion discussions. --Erwin85Bot (talk) 00:02, 22 June 2009 (UTC)
 * DeleteCannot find indications of objective notability--AssegaiAli (talk) 11:03, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. I think he fails notability. Niteshift36 (talk) 11:24, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
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