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The result was delete. North America ¹⁰⁰⁰ 02:57, 31 March 2019 (UTC) reply

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Subject does not appear to meet WP:POLITICIAN (city clerk, city treasurer, delegate, and small-town mayor) nor WP:GNG. Several sources appear to lack independence from the subject or are unverifiable. Most of the rest are from a single local newspaper, the Star-Courier of Kewanee, IL. Google News produces only 4 hits, one mentions him in passing, 2 mention a rural high school scholarship in his name, and another mentions him briefly towards the end of an Illinois county news page article that is not about him. I am not seeing enough substantive coverage in reliable verifiable sources, and no subject-specific guideline under which he would qualify (...but do we have one for beekeepers?). A loose necktie ( talk) 19:11, 23 March 2019 (UTC) reply

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU ^(T) 20:16, 23 March 2019 (UTC) reply

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• Delete I've never seen a personal scrapbook used as a source before. Best, GPL93 ( talk) 21:24, 23 March 2019 (UTC) reply
• Delete Of those four articles, the fourth that mentions him in passing only does so because the company he founded long after his death was sponsoring a local academic event. Nothing of substance is showing up at all. John Pack Lambert ( talk) 00:50, 24 March 2019 (UTC) reply
• Strong Delete Promotional spam. scope_creep ^Talk 09:15, 24 March 2019 (UTC) reply
• Delete Advertising and Promotional spam , not found sources . Swe123123 ( talk) 06:28, 24 March 2019 (UTC) reply
• Delete. Nothing stated here hands him an automatic WP:NPOL pass — the political offices he held were at the local level, not the state or national levels — but the article is referenced nowhere close to well enough to demonstrate that he's of significantly greater notability than most other smalltown municipal politicians. It depends overwhelmingly on primary sources that do not count as support for notability at all — and the stuff that is actually real reliable source media coverage is entirely from his own local newspaper, a type of coverage that every local political figure in every town or city can routinely expect to receive. This is not how you demonstrate that a smalltown municipal politician is notable enough to merit an article in an international encyclopedia. Bearcat ( talk) 18:08, 25 March 2019 (UTC) reply
• Delete Fails WP:GNG Lubbad85 ( talk) 01:07, 27 March 2019 (UTC) reply

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