Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/William Stewart Boyd


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The result was Delete -- JForget  23:09, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

William Stewart Boyd

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A Circuit Court Judge does not seem to be a position that provides inherent notability. He was apointed, not elected so the politician standings don't appear to apply here. By the article's own admission, and what I can find on a search, his sole claim to notability is a June 2007 divorce decision. The decision is labeled as historic but if that were true (can't find evidence that it is) it doesn't mean he's encyclopedically notable. Neither of the parties in the divorce appear to have their own articles leading me to believe that they aren't notable and neither is their divorce, so nowhere to merge. TravellingCari 03:51, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Illinois-related deletion discussions.   --  TravellingCari  03:52, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Law-related deletion discussions.   --  TravellingCari  03:52, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Trial court-level judges, such as the subject, are not inherently notable. There are over 400 judges in the Circuit Court of Cook County who serve alongside this judge. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 04:32, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete Notability is premised on nothing more than that he was assigned a notable case... and even the case apparently wasn't notable enough to merit its own article. Mandsford (talk) 13:46, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete - ordinary person. Mukadderat (talk) 15:58, 4 August 2008 (UTC)


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