Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/William F.X. Maughan


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The result was delete. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 21:30, 21 August 2017 (UTC)

William F.X. Maughan

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Non-notable local politician lacking in-depth, non-trivial coverage. Fails WP:POLITICIAN and WP:AUTHOR. red dogsix (talk) 18:15, 14 August 2017 (UTC)
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 * Delete, per nomination --EngiZe (talk) 18:50, 14 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete, as he also fails WP:SOLDIER. His ONE book has a two-star rating.-- Georgia Army Vet  Contribs  Talk  19:03, 14 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete. If there was any question was the "many books" in the article - which does seem to be one book (The Grappling Hook) and not of great note. He doesn't seem to have coverage. So he fails WP:AUTHOR. Pol and soldier he obviously fails.Icewhiz (talk) 19:55, 14 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete. Being an officeholder at the county level of government is not an automatic WP:NPOL pass just because you can show a couple of pieces of media coverage of the fact — every one of the tens of thousands of county councillors across the United States could show this much coverage for the fact, so what it takes to make him notable for that is much more coverage than the norm. And writing a book isn't an automatic notability freebie either, if the only sources you can show for that are its primary source pages on the self-published website of its own publisher and Amazon.com — he needs to be the subject of reliable source coverage about his writing to get a Wikipedia article for being a writer, but none at all is being shown here. Bearcat (talk) 00:06, 15 August 2017 (UTC)


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