The result was soft delete. Based on minimal participation, this uncontroversial nomination is treated as an expired PROD (a.k.a. "soft deletion"). Editors can request the article's undeletion. ✗ plicit 23:44, 24 May 2023 (UTC)
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Biography of a diplomat, not
properly sourced as passing our notability criteria for diplomats. As always, every diplomat is not automatically entitled to a Wikipedia article just because he exists or existed, and instead diplomats only get articles if they can be shown to pass
WP:GNG on their sourceability -- but existence is the only notability claim being made here, and the only sources are a short biographical blurb on one page of a book with over 2,000 pages and a very brief blurb about his death in a source that isn't even dated at all in order to replace the incorrect
Category:Living people (which I've already removed) with an actual death year category.
The article further asserts that he was a politician, but says absolutely nothing about any political roles he might have held to determine whether he would pass
WP:NPOL or not.
This is not enough sourcing to secure the notability of a diplomat all by itself, and nothing stated in the article is "inherently" notable to exempt him from having to have more sourcing than this.
Bearcat (
talk)
17:38, 17 May 2023 (UTC)