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The result was delete. Only took 11 years, Bearian ~ Amory ( u • t • c) 20:20, 21 February 2019 (UTC) reply

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Appears to be a WP:PROMO by a family member or an WP:AUTOBIO by by the subject himself. Completely unsourced and a google search came up with nothing that would help to establish WP:GNG. GPL93 ( talk) 18:02, 14 February 2019 (UTC) reply

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. ~Ruyaba~ {talk} 18:06, 14 February 2019 (UTC) reply

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Pennsylvania-related deletion discussions. ~Ruyaba~ {talk} 18:06, 14 February 2019 (UTC) reply

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. GPL93 ( talk) 23:48, 14 February 2019 (UTC) GPL93 ( talk) 23:47, 14 February 2019 (UTC) reply

• Delete. Serving as director of a county emergency management department is not an office that gets a person over WP:NPOL, but this is not referenced anywhere near well enough to get him over WP:GNG. Even the inappropriate offsite links that are threaded into the body text, in defiance of WP:ELNO rules, are not reliable source coverage about him in media, but the primary source web pages of the things being named — so they're not sources that help to establish his notability at all. Nothing here, either in the substance or the sourcing, is a reason why a person at this level of prominence would have earned a place in an international encyclopedia — and the article was created by "MinisterGregMertz" with some followup edits by "Rolmertz", but our conflict of interest rules do militate against starting articles about yourself or your own family members. Bearcat ( talk) 18:25, 15 February 2019 (UTC) reply
• Delete county directors of emergency services are almost never notable, nothing comes close to making this person an exception. John Pack Lambert ( talk) 23:30, 16 February 2019 (UTC) reply
• Delete Over a decade and no references; for a reason as the person is not notable. Britishfinance ( talk) 15:56, 21 February 2019 (UTC) reply
• Delete per WP:ANYBIO and arguments by the above editors. I did a quick search per WP:BEFORE and found nothing. Bearian ( talk) 18:29, 21 February 2019 (UTC) reply

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