Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tony Tenpenny


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The result was delete. Geschichte (talk) 10:34, 24 October 2020 (UTC)

Tony Tenpenny

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Not notable. Being a city council member does not establish notability. Neither does claiming the COVID is a hoax, and neither does dying from it. Grave-dancing in the irony that someone (asterisk, in the lowest possible elected office) did both of the latter things does not justify writing a stub about him. Finding any additional information to add seems very unlikely due to the circumstances. But if he were alive, there would be even less to say. Delete. ―cobaltcigs 06:05, 17 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Tennessee-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 10:34, 18 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 10:34, 18 October 2020 (UTC)


 * Delete Borderline case depending on whether Nashville Metro Council meets 's criteria for a city of global importance, but otherwise Tenpenny would not meet WP:NPOL. I agree with the assessment by in their above case. Bkissin (talk) 14:27, 19 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Just to be clear, they're not my criteria: they're Wikipedia's criteria, established by a consensus of users, and the only thing I am is the person who's most commonly called on to explain them when they're in question. Bearcat (talk) 14:46, 19 October 2020 (UTC)


 * Delete. Nashville isn't classified as a global city by any of the standard indexing organizations that we turn to for that determination: I can easily find coverage of its efforts to attain global city status, but self-branding isn't how a city gets that designation — it has to be conferred by an external organization, and isn't a title cities can just hand themselves. So no, Nashville's local municipal councillors don't get an automatic inclusion freebie just for existing as municipal councillors, and his only path to inclusion is if he can be well-sourced as much more nationally significant than the norm for non-global city councillors. But a small blip of coverage about the irony of his dying of COVID-19 soon after labelling the disease as a hoax just makes him a WP:BIO1E, not a person who would pass the ten year test for enduring nationalized significance. Bearcat (talk) 14:58, 19 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete The expectation under WP:NPOL is that a city councilmember should receive international or national coverage that is much more than the average municipal official. --Enos733 (talk) 05:32, 20 October 2020 (UTC)


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