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The result was speedy delete. -- Ed ( Edgar181) 17:21, 17 June 2017 (UTC) reply

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Can't find any news related to him. WP:NPF Nickrds09 ^{(Talk to me)} 09:52, 13 June 2017 (UTC) reply

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU ^(T) 10:08, 13 June 2017 (UTC) reply

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Philippines-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU ^(T) 10:08, 13 June 2017 (UTC) reply

• Delete. The article, as written, contains no actual content or sourcing — to determine why the article was created, one has to carefully scan the infobox to locate the claim that he's the "incumbent acting governor of Pampanga". But firstly, I can find reliable source verification of neither this nor the corollary claim which was added to Governor of Pampanga that Lilia Pineda has taken a leave of absence at all. Secondly, even if she has taken a leave of absence, the "acting" replacement for a political officeholder is normally another political officeholder (e.g. the existing deputy or vice governor, a cabinet member, a high-ranking member of the legislature, etc.), not the absenting officeholder's unelected chief of staff (which is what Abad is claimed to have been prior to taking over as acting governor). And thirdly, I can't even find reliable source verification that somebody named Jon Abad was ever Pineda's chief of staff in the first place. All of which means that this is teetering dangerously close to the edge of being speediable as a WP:HOAX — the only possible way this isn't a complete crock of shit is if Pineda took a day or two of sick leave last week, so her chief of staff wasn't sworn in as "acting governor" in any official sense, but merely kept the paperwork flowing in his normal capacity as the supervisor of her office staff. And even if true, that would just mean he was doing his job, not acceding to hers, and wouldn't be particularly newsworthy or encyclopedic. Bearcat ( talk) 14:12, 13 June 2017 (UTC) reply
• Delete per Bearcat's insightful comments and because it fails verifiability. Edison ( talk) 18:49, 13 June 2017 (UTC) reply
• Speedy Delete as G5 block by Jr abad Oripaypaykim (talk) 12:17, 15 June 2017 (UTC) reply

Just to clarify, because I didn't quite understand what Oripaypaykim meant at first, a little bit of further investigation reveals Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Jr abad, at which several users have been blocked over the past few months for repeatedly creating unverifiable hoax articles about someone named "John Deguzman", "John Abad" or "John Ray Deguzman Abad" — who was usually claimed as an actor, but sometimes threw in the claim to being Lilia Pineda's chief of staff as well. I knew about none of this before, but it's additional evidence in support of deletion and we should probably throw some WP:SALT on top. Bearcat ( talk) 13:42, 15 June 2017 (UTC) reply

• Speedy delete, this has been recreated again and again under the names mentioned by Bearcat above. This is another case of a kid who imagines himself as a government official as well as a celebrity and creates an article about himself. This AFD should be used as a future reference for any admin in case this article will be recreated again. - WayKurat ( talk) 17:19, 15 June 2017 (UTC) reply
• Speedy delete as G3 (hoax) and G5 and tagged as such. Hoax article, need I say more? Narutolovehinata5 ^{t c csd new} 01:06, 17 June 2017 (UTC) reply

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