Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Thomas J. Maloney (politician)


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The result was delete. King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 03:59, 11 January 2017 (UTC)

Thomas J. Maloney (politician)

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Fails WP:BASIC, WP:ANYBIO, and WP:POLITICIAN. Unable to locate any secondary sources to support notability. This was the first mayor of Pittston, Pennsylvania, a city of 8,000. The sources cited in the article are all from the City of Pittston website. Magnolia677 (talk) 23:22, 3 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete Fails WP:NPOL, unless there is an exemption for first mayors of small cities. MB 04:48, 4 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 14:29, 7 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Pennsylvania-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 14:29, 7 January 2017 (UTC)


 * Delete. A population of 8K is not large enough to hand mayors an automatic WP:NPOL pass just for being mayors — but there's no evidence shown here of sufficient reliable source coverage about him, or sufficient substance about his mayoralty besides who happened to serve as acting mayor while he was on vacation in Ireland, to deem him more notable than the norm. Bearcat (talk) 16:44, 8 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete. The sources only confirm that he was mayor; this does not automatically mean the subject is notable. 1292simon (talk)
 * Delete: Per nom. GauchoDude (talk) 13:16, 10 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Comment (mostly directed at the article creator) There is already a newspapers.com clipping for one of his obituaries, here. There are (of course) many other articles about him in Luzern County papers from during his life which can be found on newspapers.com and elsewhere. I would not support this article or its recreation if sources like these were used. There is an essay Places of local interest and a failed guideline proposal Notability (local interests) which basically advise that "Editors will generally not object to articles about places of local interest that are sufficiently long (not a stub), contain appropriate information (e.g. several of the ideas for information to include above), and are reasonably well-referenced." In the early period of Wikipedia, an article like this in its current state might be retained with the idea that such an article could be written. Now, articles are held to a higher standard.
 * As a note, this Thomas Maloney died in 1909, there was another Thomas Maloney (I don't know if there is any relation) who was a coal miner and labor leader in the 1930s in central Pennsylvania (nearby Wilkes Barre) who is certainly notable. Also, newspapers.com also finds sources about him under the name "James Maloney", suggesting that his middle name is James, but I don't find anything significant and contemporary using that name as a search term, either. Smmurphy(Talk) 18:46, 10 January 2017 (UTC)


 * Delete. Fails all three criteria at WP:NPOL. Brad  v  20:02, 10 January 2017 (UTC)


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