Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/William G. Stewart (Louisiana) (2nd nomination)


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The result was delete. We do not assume better sources exist. If they can be found they need to be presented in the discussion to establish notability. Ad Orientem (talk) 02:54, 22 February 2019 (UTC)

William G. Stewart (Louisiana)
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All of the sources are either primary, obits, or are about people that he was tangentially related to and don't establish any sort of notability. I recommend a speedy delete. GPL93 (talk) 17:21, 14 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions.  ~Ruyaba~   {talk}  17:51, 14 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Louisiana-related deletion discussions.  ~Ruyaba~   {talk}  17:51, 14 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. GPL93 (talk) 23:47, 14 February 2019 (UTC)


 * Keep I don't see it fails WP:GNG. Better sources could be searched for. THE NEW  Immortal  Wizard  (chat) 18:25, 14 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Comment @User:ImmortalWizard I couldn't find any actual sources to support GNG in my search. The current references used in the article are as follows: 1) a memorial on FindaGrave.com (Primary); 2) a link to a now-defunct website but the url appears to focus on the names of parks and highways; 3) |another memorial on FindaGrave.com, this time for his father (Primary); 4) a link to Ancestry.com with general information about his grandfather; 5) his grandfather's memorial on FindaGrave.com (Primary); 6) non-linked election results; 7) his wife's memorial on FindaGrave.com, masked as a newspaper article in the sourcing; 8) Stewart's basic info on Ancestry.com; 9) what appears to be an unlinked reference to a centennial brochure about Webster Parrish, LA; 10) another dead link for the now-defunct website, this time about a historic house that was owned by one of his ancestors; 11) A PDF that establishes that his half-brother (not Stewart himself) was a member of the LA House of Representatives; 12) Stewart's basic info on Ancestry.com again; and 13) and another memorial on FindaGrave.com. All of the findagraves are technically linked to newspaper articles, but they are local funeral announcements and obits and don't constitute significant enough coverage. Most of them aren't event about the subject. The page's creator, who has since been banned, was known for reference-spamming to make the articles appear more substantiated when they actually weren't. Best, GPL93 (talk) 18:54, 14 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete. Being president of a smalltown local school board is not a claim of notability that gets a person over WP:NPOL, but there's no credible evidence here that the subject passes WP:GNG. GNG is not simply a matter of counting the number of footnotes present in the article and keeping anything that has more than two of them — GNG tests for depth, geographic range and context, not just number, but (as is almost always the case with Billy Hathorn specials) the sourcing here isn't cutting it at all. The majority of the sources here are genealogy, not journalism, and even the ones that are actual journalism are obituaries of his relatives, not journalism about him. This is not how you reference a smalltown school board trustee as notable enough for Wikipedia. If this were Louisianapedia I probably wouldn't care, but then again I wouldn't be participating in a Louisianapedia in the first place as I know far too little about Louisiana to have anything to contribute to that — but nothing here is evidence that he's earned a place in an international encyclopedia at all. Bearcat (talk) 18:19, 15 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:NOTINHERITED. The better sources are all for his relatives, such as his father-in-law, but not him. Based on past precedent, school board members and superintendents are not automatically notable, unless they go on to higher offices (see, e.g. Lewis Powell, Jr.) Bearian (talk) 18:26, 21 February 2019 (UTC)


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