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I am re-nominating this article for deletion under the same rationale (below) because it closed as no consensus and the only "keep" vote was an IP who was almost certainly
User:Billy Hathorn evading his block.
Non-notable county sheriff. Fails
WP:NPOL and
WP:GNG. The sources used in this article are: 1) a link to the funeral home memorial description for his predecessor, which appears to have been deleted by the funeral home; 2), 3), and 4) are simply a list of election results; 5) the bio of his successor on the St. Martin Parish Sheriff's department website; 6) a copy of a speech recognizing him on the LA state house floor (not uncommon); 7) a resolution more or less doing the same; 8) a link to the LA secretary of state's website that simply establishes that he and his wife are registered to vote; and 9) a list of members of the Louisiana Political Hall of Fame which he is a member of but its not a particularly notable achievement.
GPL93 (
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21:37, 20 November 2019 (UTC)reply
Weak Support - I feel like this article has enough material from RS that it could have maybe one or two sentences work of information about the subject, but in its current state...probably can't be salvaged. Then again, I've heard of the user who created this page, he had a reputation for copyright violations, which taints the article more.
Jerry (
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22:47, 20 November 2019 (UTC)reply
Delete for procedural reasons. While it's anyone's guess on whether or not anything on him counts for notability, this article is subject to indiscriminate deletion per
WP:CCI/20110727.
ミラP16:03, 21 November 2019 (UTC)reply
Delete. Neither being in the Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame nor being a "National Sheriff of the Year" are instant notability freebies that exempt a person from having to actually have a GNG-worthy volume of reliable source media coverage just because they exist — but the references here are entirely blogs and primary sources, with not even one piece of real media reportage being shown at all let alone the several pieces of real media reportage it would take to get him over GNG. Billy Hathorn was wrong about how notability works for local politicians — a person has not automatically cleared GNG just because you can find a single obituary in their local newspaper. And that goes double if that obituary isn't even an actual journalist-written news article, but merely the paid-inclusion death notice in the classifieds that every person who dies at all automatically gets if their family deigns to place one.
Bearcat (
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23:00, 21 November 2019 (UTC)reply
Delete obituaries and funeral home announcements don't really make good sources for
WP:GNG and those are the least biased of anything in the article; without anything else presented I don't see it. If additional sources were presented, I'd certainly reconsider.--
Paul McDonald (
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15:41, 22 November 2019 (UTC)reply
additional comment those sources may be good for verifying information and can be useful, but they don't establish notability. That was my intent in my comment, I don't think I was clear.--
Paul McDonald (
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20:20, 22 November 2019 (UTC)reply
Delete - Non notable individual who lacks significant coverage in reliable sources.
Celestina007 (
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