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The result was delete. TonyBallioni ( talk) 16:04, 10 February 2018 (UTC) reply

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A county sheriff, does not pass WP:POLITICIAN. There is only one source for this article and nothing in the article seems to indicate that the subject did anything particularly notable during his career. Rusf10 ( talk) 06:46, 3 February 2018 (UTC) reply

• Comment Contingent on outcome of discussion at Talk:Monmouth County, New Jersey#Sheriff of Monmouth County, New Jersey as to whether or not subsection Monmouth County, New Jersey#Sheriffs should be split to stand-alone article. this nomination-decision should postponed/re-listed.

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. ^{Baby miss fortune} 07:41, 3 February 2018 (UTC) reply

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. ^{Baby miss fortune} 07:42, 3 February 2018 (UTC) reply

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of New Jersey-related deletion discussions. ^{Baby miss fortune} 07:42, 3 February 2018 (UTC) reply

• Strong delete some county sherrifs are notable, such as Joe Arpio, and David Clarke (sheriff). They however do not show that even all holders of the office in their county are notable. Another example is Warren Evans, although he is probably more notable as Wayne County Executive. Fields however was sherrif of a county that at the time had under 100,000 people (it reached 82,000 in 1900, just after he apparently left office), and the one source is not enough to show that Fields is notable. John Pack Lambert ( talk) 20:11, 4 February 2018 (UTC) reply
• Delete. County sheriffs are not automatically presumed notable just because they're technically verifiable to one brief blurb in a local history book — they can clear the bar for inclusion if they're the subject of enough media coverage to clear WP:GNG, but there's no evidence of that being shown here. Bearcat ( talk) 21:00, 4 February 2018 (UTC) reply
• Strong delete - Nothing much beyond routine. Obviously if that person for some reason is in the news (about what he did, not being quoted in a news story about something else) or a controversial figure then yes. Acnetj ( talk) 03:10, 5 February 2018 (UTC) reply
• Delete a municipal officeholder fails POLOUTCOMES - no indication of GNG pass Chetsford ( talk) 20:52, 5 February 2018 (UTC) reply
• Merge Contingent on outcome of discussion at Talk:Monmouth County, New Jersey#Sheriff of Monmouth County, New Jersey as to whether or not subsection Monmouth County, New Jersey#Sheriffs should be split to stand-alone article. this nomination-decision should postponed/re-listed. Djflem ( talk) 12:50, 8 February 2018 (UTC) reply
• Merge / Redirect to Monmouth County, New Jersey The cyclopedia reference undoubtedly about him is a decent one, but there is insufficient evidence of standalone notability at this point. WP:BEFORE and WP:deletion policy#Alternatives to deletion all specify that options to deletion should be considered. There is content here that could be merged and at a minimum redirected to the proposed target.
  As stated in the header of this (and every other) AfD: "When discussing an article, remember to consider alternatives to deletion. If you think the article could be a disambiguation page, redirected or merged to another article, then consider recommending "Disambiguation", "Redirect" or "Merge" instead of deletion. Similarly, if another editor has proposed an alternative to deletion but you think the article should be deleted instead, please elaborate why." Alansohn ( talk) 20:37, 8 February 2018 (UTC) reply
  • Comment. There is a place in the format of both Sheriff of Monmouth County, New Jersey and List of Monmouth County Freeholder directors for information to be inserted. Djflem ( talk) 10:12, 9 February 2018 (UTC) reply

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