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Keep passes
WP:POLOUTCOMES,
The Woodlands, Texas has a population exceeding 100,000 residents, this is regional prominence. Also passes
WP:NPOL and
WP:GNG he has received coverage from national news sources such as
Fox News, he has also been a candidate for
Texas State Senate, and is founder and CEO of a The Woodlands Financial Group (TWFG) and President of Professional Insurance Agents of Texas. TWFG Insurance is ranked #1 in Texas and Louisiana and 8th largest privately-owned independent insurance provider in the United States.
Iamreallygoodatcheckers (
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02:23, 6 June 2019 (UTC)reply
After further searching it seems that the subject passes
WP:GNG on their extremely successful business career alone, therefore whether or not they satisfy WP:NPOL is irrelevant.
Horse Eye Jack (
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17:13, 6 June 2019 (UTC)reply
Delete fails
WP:NPOL.
The Woodlands, Texas is currently an unincorporated special purpose district in Texas and the chair of the township is elected by the other members of the board. While the Fox News article provides some nationalized coverage of the subject, the level of nationalized coverage is not what we typically desire for a local board member. --
Enos733 (
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17:23, 6 June 2019 (UTC)reply
Delete. Notability for local political figures is not a question of the municipality's population — it depends on the quality of the sourcing, and a population of 100K is not an instant notability freebie for a mayor or municipal councillor or board chair in the absence of adequate sourcing. People also do not get Wikipedia articles for running as candidates for higher NPOL-passing offices — for "Texas State Senate" to have any bearing whatsoever on his notability, he would have to have won that election and thereby sat in the State Senate as a Senator, not just run and lose. But the references here are not building a strong case for his notability: they are nearly all
primary sources and small community hyperlocals in which coverage of the local political scene is merely expected to exist, and the only one that's a genuinely national source just briefly mentions his existence in the context of being fundamentally about something other than him. This is not how you make people at this level of political office notable enough for Wikipedia articles: the notability test is not "as soon as his name has been mentioned in a national media source once" — he has to be the subject of substantive coverage, not just get namechecked in coverage of other things, before a source assists in building his notability at all.
Bearcat (
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18:42, 6 June 2019 (UTC)reply
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