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WP:NPOL(He represented the 3rd District of the Erie County Legislature from 1994-2007 & Major local political figures who have received significant press coverage on his judicial cases.).--PATHSLOPU02:48, 28 May 2019 (UTC)reply
Delete A county-level position is not an automatic pass of
WP:NPOL (obviously we're not talking about a state or province-wide office) so there's no presumption of notability to be found here. The first reference links to a list of names and the second to a blurb on a state agency report. I do not consider
WP:GNG to be met here, since there's no significant coverage to be found in multiple reliable sources. I also could not find better sources out there to cover this BLP.
RetiredDuke (
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23:59, 28 May 2019 (UTC)reply
Delete. The lowest level of political office that guarantees an article to every officeholder is the state legislature. At the county level, it might sometimes be possible for a county councillor to clear the bar if they can be really well-sourced, but they are not automatically a "major local political figure" just because they're verifiable as existing — the notability test for officeholders at the county level is the ability to write and source a genuinely substantive article that makes a credible case that he's significantly more notable than most other county councillors. But if he's been the subject of enough press coverage to clear NPOL #2, this article sure isn't showing it: the only two footnotes present here at all are both
primary sources that do not constitute support for notability, and there's literally no evidence of real notability-supporting
reliable source coverage being shown at all.
Bearcat (
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13:10, 1 June 2019 (UTC)reply
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