Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Scott Martin Alexander


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The result was   delete. Courcelles (talk) 20:30, 1 June 2010 (UTC)

Scott Martin Alexander

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Contested prod. Autobiography. Mayor of a small town near Camden, New Jersey. News coverage is sketchy. Delete  Blanchardb - Me•MyEars•MyMouth - timed 22:55, 25 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete as non-notable, what appears to be a soapbox and, frankly, a silly idea. Mayors don't get their own personal webpage on Wikipedia, not even the Mayor of Haddon Heights, New Jersey (pop. 7,365).  Is he up for re-election in 2011? Mandsford 23:31, 25 May 2010 (UTC)
 *  !Neutral  - I found a number of reliable sources, however it is an autobiography and the information posted initially was not encyclopedic - appeared to be more of the beginning of a puff piece / campaign ad. I did add the section on the fraud allegation to paint both sides of the picture (and appropriately cited the negative information).  GregJackP (talk) 23:35, 25 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Did you find any sources that show notability? Theoretically, even the dogcatcher in Haddon Heights could find references to himself in reliable sources in the local papers and could write a detailed story about the borough's animal control needs.  Notwithstanding that we don't want to encourage politicians to make Wikipedia their webhost, it occurs to me that maybe the article was written by someone who is posing as the man.  The idea of a tiny-town mayor maintaining his own personal Wikipedia page is so silly that I think that it's more likely that a person is planning to make him the object of ridicule.  Better that Wikipedia stay out of the politics of this South Jersey village.   Mandsford 12:48, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Philadelphia Inquirer, 3/2/2009; [New York Times, 6/15/2008 (5 paragraphs of article); a bunch from the local paper. [[User:GregJackP|GregJackP]] (talk) 13:53, 26 May 2010 (UTC)


 * The New York Times covers New Jersey as part of its "beat" (I'll concede that the town is more properly in the Philadelphia area than in NY Metro. Still, the article is part of the regional news section, and it's about New Jersey's high property tax rate rather than about Mr. Alexander himself, even though he got quoted in the piece.  While getting mentioned in the NYT is something I have never achieved, lots of New Jersey people get referred to in the Times.  Mandsford 18:02, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of New Jersey-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 23:09, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
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 * Delete due to lack of non-trivial reliable independent sources. Guy (Help!) 11:18, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete A long way short of satisfying WP:GNG. Nuttah (talk) 13:52, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete - changed vote from !neutral to !delete based on continued editing by subject of article, adding uncited material and redundant comments. GregJackP (talk) 14:13, 1 June 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.