Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Thomas E. Duff


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The result was Speedy Deleted G7  Chris  lk02  Chris Kreider 20:33, 12 May 2015 (UTC)

Thomas E. Duff

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city manager of a number of small cities. No evidence for notability. city manager is not one of those positions that necessarily implies notability. The population of the cities was in each case under 35,000, so even had he been an elected official such as mayor, that wouldn't imply notability either.  DGG ( talk ) 18:53, 9 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Keep - Received significant coverage in James D. Doherty's Andover As I Remember It, Randy W. Baumgardner's 10th Mountain Division, the Boston Globe articles Saugus has a great tradition... can he manage to end it? and Andover Thrives on Good Community Relations, and a sizable obituary in The Stowe Reporter. --Hirolovesswords (talk) 19:57, 9 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete Fails WP:POLITICIAN as an appointed city manager and WP:SOLDIER as a PfC. That "Andover As I Remember It" book source does not seem to have been published by a reputable company and is likely self-published. Routine local obituaries do not establish notability. Cullen328  Let's discuss it  22:45, 9 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Still received significant coverage in 10th Mountain Division, which was published by a reputable company (Turner Publishing Company), and the Boston Globe. --Hirolovesswords (talk) 02:28, 11 May 2015 (UTC)
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 * Delete: Err, Hiro, did you read that 10th Mountain Division bit? That's not "significant coverage," that's a CV ... and over half of it is about the collective service of a group among whom he was numbered, not about him specifically.  As far as the Globe citations go, if there were a thousand of them, they're still routine coverage, they're not substantial, they run afoul of GEOSCOPE, and they represent only a single source.  I see that you're unusually invested in creating articles for Saugus town managers (??), but.   Ravenswing   19:52, 12 May 2015 (UTC)
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