The result was keep. ( non-admin closure) B E C K Y S A Y L E S 00:34, 11 January 2015 (UTC)
Biography of a politician and writer, making no strong claim of notability for either endeavour. His political career mostly boils down to unsuccessful candidacies for political office, as well as a term on the municipal council of a suburban borough which is not in the narrow range of global cities whose municipal councillors are granted an automatic WP:NPOL pass. The municipal council work, further, is summarized "won in 1976 and then lost in 1980", with no content about anything he actually did in that office (it actually says more about his successor's term on council than it does about his) — so his failure to satisfy NPOL is not counterbalanced by enough content or sourcing to claim WP:GNG instead. And his work as a writer is referenced entirely to WP:PRIMARYSOURCES — the "source" for his book is the book's own publication details rather than any media coverage, the "source" for his work as a newspaper publisher is the newspaper he was the publisher of, and on and so forth — with no evidence that he garnered any independent coverage or passed WP:CREATIVE for any of it. And beyond that, we're left with some genealogy coatracking about a few semi-notable ancestors and a son, but notability is WP:NOTINHERITED either. It might be possible to write a substantive and well-sourced article about him, so no prejudice against recreation in the future if that actually happens — but as currently written, this is little more than a generic obituary which doesn't demonstrate that the subject belongs in an encyclopedia. Delete. Bearcat ( talk) 07:57, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
Unionville ( talk) 20:00, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
The result was keep. ( non-admin closure) B E C K Y S A Y L E S 00:34, 11 January 2015 (UTC)
Biography of a politician and writer, making no strong claim of notability for either endeavour. His political career mostly boils down to unsuccessful candidacies for political office, as well as a term on the municipal council of a suburban borough which is not in the narrow range of global cities whose municipal councillors are granted an automatic WP:NPOL pass. The municipal council work, further, is summarized "won in 1976 and then lost in 1980", with no content about anything he actually did in that office (it actually says more about his successor's term on council than it does about his) — so his failure to satisfy NPOL is not counterbalanced by enough content or sourcing to claim WP:GNG instead. And his work as a writer is referenced entirely to WP:PRIMARYSOURCES — the "source" for his book is the book's own publication details rather than any media coverage, the "source" for his work as a newspaper publisher is the newspaper he was the publisher of, and on and so forth — with no evidence that he garnered any independent coverage or passed WP:CREATIVE for any of it. And beyond that, we're left with some genealogy coatracking about a few semi-notable ancestors and a son, but notability is WP:NOTINHERITED either. It might be possible to write a substantive and well-sourced article about him, so no prejudice against recreation in the future if that actually happens — but as currently written, this is little more than a generic obituary which doesn't demonstrate that the subject belongs in an encyclopedia. Delete. Bearcat ( talk) 07:57, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
Unionville ( talk) 20:00, 3 January 2015 (UTC)