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The result was delete. MBisanz talk 22:59, 2 November 2016 (UTC)
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I would like to ask if he (and most others at Category:County legislators in New York, but this is not a mass nom) meet WP:POLITICIAN. Looking at Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Common_outcomes#Politicians, I note that we draw the line somewhere at province to municipal politicians. Well, what is province in the US context? Is a county in NY more important that a town in that region? Looking at this bio, I see nothing to merit inclusion in Wikipedia except if we argue that he meets POLITICIAN as a province-level one, which honestly suggests we are way to inclusive of such minor personalities, and that we may need to have a wider discussion about the wording of that policy. For now, I'd ask you all to review this bio and its sources, and think whether this person is notable or not. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 03:24, 25 October 2016 (UTC)
A county in New York and any US state is higher jurisdiction than a town/village/city. Davidjarka ( talk) 13:56, 25 October 2016 (UTC)
- Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple ( talk) 12:58, 27 October 2016 (UTC)
- Delete Service as a county-level (US) legislator does not meet the presumption of notability under WP:POLITICIAN. A Google search does not provide any more references than the subject's obituary in the Buffalo News (and a handful of articles where the subject is name-checked in). - Enos733 ( talk) 15:38, 27 October 2016 (UTC)
- Delete. While county-level office can get a person into Wikipedia under WP:NPOL #2 ("Major local political figures who have received significant press coverage") if the article is solidly sourced over WP:GNG, it is not a level of office that confers automatic inclusion rights on every county official who exists (see NPOL corollary #3) — for a county councillor to clear the Wikipedia inclusion bar, he must be sourceable to more than just local media as more notable than the norm for some substantive reason. This article doesn't satisfy either part of that equation, however: it's minimally sourced to the WP:ROUTINE level of purely local coverage that a county councillor would be expected to generate in the local media, and it's written very much like the kind of generic "our members" profile one might see on the county government's own website if he were still in office. There's just nothing shown here that makes him a topic the world needs to know about. Bearcat ( talk) 17:03, 27 October 2016 (UTC)
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