Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/William D. McDowell


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The result was redirect to Bergen County Executive. &spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 05:00, 23 March 2018 (UTC)

William D. McDowell

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Fails WP:POLITICIAN. No significant coverage in reliable sources outside of the routine election coverage. Rusf10 (talk) 23:17, 15 March 2018 (UTC)
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 * Delete - Unless it is significantly improved to meet the criteria. Acnetj (talk) 04:44, 16 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Bergen County Executive. No independent notability, the (very scanty) coverage is in relation to that position only. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 11:58, 16 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Bergen County Executive Djflem (talk) 08:44, 17 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Strong Keep Lots of coverage of this politician and sheriff. First county executive. Try searching Google Books for Bill McDowell Bergen and William McDowell Bergen. I came up with lots of sources in addition to those already in the article such as New York Times articles. Sources include discussion of his election. Discussion of his activities as sheriff. Dennis C. Miller's book discusses him and the union pressures he faced. This is a bad nom. FloridaArmy (talk) 14:04, 18 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete fails WP:NPOLITICIAN as a minor local leader. Article even states he had a low-key administration. Not otherwise WP:GNG, as no sources detail him directly outside of the scope of his minor political position. SportingFlyer  talk  22:34, 18 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete As above - fails WP:NPOLITICIAN - Deathlibrarian (talk) 01:50, 19 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete local coverage is not enough to show notability.John Pack Lambert (talk) 02:26, 21 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Bergen County Executive or possibly Keep.  there was a remarkable amount of detailed and INDEPTH coverage of his career during the years he was active.  For example, this reported profile Wheels of change roll slowly through New Jersey county] by Orsi, Jennifer in the St. Petersburg Times, 18 February 1990.   The online version I'm looking at makes it clear that this is a story original to St. Pete, (see bottom of text - where \ news wire stories are always flagged as such in stories reprinted in this "Times"; this story says "Copyright Times Publishing Co.", which is how you know it's St. Pete, not NY.)E.M.Gregory (talk) 17:53, 21 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep - McDowell was the inaugural holder of the office that governs the most populous country in New Jersey. To put it in perspective, in 1990, during the McDowell's tenure, he governed a county of app. 825,000 resident. By contrast the present-day Governor of the entire state of Wyoming presently governs about 585,000 people. I also agree with other editors that there's more than enough coverage to merit McDowell's bio. Scanlan (talk) 18:57, 22 March 2018 (UTC)


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