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Doesn't meet
WP:NPOL - mayorship of small town and county judgeship aren't high enough offices to ding the auto-notability criteria. I wasn't able to find sufficient sourcing (indeed any at all save what's in the article) to indicate a GNG/ANYBIO pass. Being the first of something only confers notability when sourcing reflects the importance of that achievement, which isn't borne out by the sourcing available here. ♠
PMC♠
(talk)23:31, 12 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Delete He was a very low level judge for less than a year. He later was mayor of a small place. Not even remotely closing to passing any politician notability guidelines.
John Pack Lambert (
talk)
14:24, 14 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Delete per nom. Undoubtedly, there will be a first X of Y for every Y, but this is indeed too low-level to be of importance on that score.
BD2412T17:20, 17 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Keep. I agree with the nom that these aren't positions that confer inherent notability under
WP:NPOL, but a bit of digging finds enough sources for a WP:BASIC pass, in my view. Thanks to Newspapers.com, we have a front-page article in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram (
pt. 1;
pt. 2) discussing his appointment in detail, national and international press coverage from various wire services
[1][2][3], information about his ouster by the voters (
[4]), and other briefer mentions. I wouldn't call this an open-and-shut case, but on balance I think the sourcing is satisfactory, particularly given WP:BASIC's advice that "multiple independent sources may be combined to demonstrate notability" as well as the fact that there's likely pre-Internet-era coverage only available offline. (In particular, I'd be very surprised if there wasn't coverage in the Dallas Morning News, which would be the single most relevant paper for this area: I don't seem to have access to their archives, but per
WP:NEXIST we ought to at least consider the possibility that there are sources that can't easily be found online.)
Extraordinary Writ (
talk)
06:36, 19 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Keep I found writing about him in google books and on google scholar and added it in. He's also mentioned in Time magazine. I think he's notable based on this, in addition to what was already in the article.
CT55555 (
talk)
03:50, 27 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Comment can this be added to any LGBTQ+ lists for deletion sorting, it seems like his sexuality is the key thing that makes him notable?
CT55555 (
talk)
03:51, 27 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Strong Keep I was about to dig through all the newspaper archives I have access to when I realized that Extraordinary Writ had already done so. I won't list them again, but there are plenty of sources to show notability, the article simply needs some expanding to reflect that.
Toadspike (
talk)
04:29, 27 March 2022 (UTC)reply
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's
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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's
talk page or in a
deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.
Doesn't meet
WP:NPOL - mayorship of small town and county judgeship aren't high enough offices to ding the auto-notability criteria. I wasn't able to find sufficient sourcing (indeed any at all save what's in the article) to indicate a GNG/ANYBIO pass. Being the first of something only confers notability when sourcing reflects the importance of that achievement, which isn't borne out by the sourcing available here. ♠
PMC♠
(talk)23:31, 12 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Delete He was a very low level judge for less than a year. He later was mayor of a small place. Not even remotely closing to passing any politician notability guidelines.
John Pack Lambert (
talk)
14:24, 14 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Delete per nom. Undoubtedly, there will be a first X of Y for every Y, but this is indeed too low-level to be of importance on that score.
BD2412T17:20, 17 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Keep. I agree with the nom that these aren't positions that confer inherent notability under
WP:NPOL, but a bit of digging finds enough sources for a WP:BASIC pass, in my view. Thanks to Newspapers.com, we have a front-page article in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram (
pt. 1;
pt. 2) discussing his appointment in detail, national and international press coverage from various wire services
[1][2][3], information about his ouster by the voters (
[4]), and other briefer mentions. I wouldn't call this an open-and-shut case, but on balance I think the sourcing is satisfactory, particularly given WP:BASIC's advice that "multiple independent sources may be combined to demonstrate notability" as well as the fact that there's likely pre-Internet-era coverage only available offline. (In particular, I'd be very surprised if there wasn't coverage in the Dallas Morning News, which would be the single most relevant paper for this area: I don't seem to have access to their archives, but per
WP:NEXIST we ought to at least consider the possibility that there are sources that can't easily be found online.)
Extraordinary Writ (
talk)
06:36, 19 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Keep I found writing about him in google books and on google scholar and added it in. He's also mentioned in Time magazine. I think he's notable based on this, in addition to what was already in the article.
CT55555 (
talk)
03:50, 27 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Comment can this be added to any LGBTQ+ lists for deletion sorting, it seems like his sexuality is the key thing that makes him notable?
CT55555 (
talk)
03:51, 27 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Strong Keep I was about to dig through all the newspaper archives I have access to when I realized that Extraordinary Writ had already done so. I won't list them again, but there are plenty of sources to show notability, the article simply needs some expanding to reflect that.
Toadspike (
talk)
04:29, 27 March 2022 (UTC)reply
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