Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Terry Bankert


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The result was delete. Eddie891 Talk Work 20:08, 29 January 2021 (UTC)

Terry Bankert

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WP:BLP of a person notable only as a municipal bureaucrat in a midsized city. As always, people at this level of political office are not automatically notable enough for inclusion in Wikipedia just because it's possible to verify that they exist -- to be notable enough for inclusion in Wikipedia under WP:NPOL #2, he would have to be sourced to a significant range and depth of nationalizing coverage that established him as much more notable than most other city clerks or ombudsmen. But of the five footnotes here, four are primary sources that are not support for notability at all (e.g. his own website, the city's own self-published reports, raw tables of election results). There's only one news article in the local newspaper for reliable sourcing, and even that article just glancingly mentions Bankert without being about him to any non-trivial degree. There's just nothing here that's "inherently" notable enough to exempt him from having to be the subject of a lot more and wider coverage than this. Bearcat (talk) 19:18, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 19:18, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Michigan-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 19:18, 22 January 2021 (UTC)


 * Delete WP:SNOW per nom. – Cupper 52 Discuss! 20:55, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete nothing even remotely close to a position at a level that would make him notable. If being a city ombudsman was enough to make someone notable, we would need to more than double the size of Wikipedia.John Pack Lambert (talk) 21:11, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete per above, and particularly failing WP:NPOL. Flint is not so large a city that its city officials are automatically notable, and the coverage he's had is entirely local. See also Articles for deletion/Darryl Buchanan. Bearian (talk) 17:42, 26 January 2021 (UTC)


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