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Delete. If there was any question was the "many books" in the article - which does seem to be one book (The Grappling Hook) and not of great note. He doesn't seem to have coverage. So he fails
WP:AUTHOR. Pol and soldier he obviously fails.
Icewhiz (
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19:55, 14 August 2017 (UTC)reply
Delete. Being an officeholder at the county level of government is not an automatic
WP:NPOL pass just because you can show a couple of pieces of media coverage of the fact — every one of the tens of thousands of county councillors across the United States could show this much coverage for the fact, so what it takes to make him notable for that is much more coverage than the norm. And writing a book isn't an automatic notability freebie either, if the only sources you can show for that are its primary source pages on the
self-published website of its own publisher and
Amazon.com — he needs to be the subject of
reliable source coverage about his writing to get a Wikipedia article for being a writer, but none at all is being shown here.
Bearcat (
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00:06, 15 August 2017 (UTC)reply
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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
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Delete. If there was any question was the "many books" in the article - which does seem to be one book (The Grappling Hook) and not of great note. He doesn't seem to have coverage. So he fails
WP:AUTHOR. Pol and soldier he obviously fails.
Icewhiz (
talk)
19:55, 14 August 2017 (UTC)reply
Delete. Being an officeholder at the county level of government is not an automatic
WP:NPOL pass just because you can show a couple of pieces of media coverage of the fact — every one of the tens of thousands of county councillors across the United States could show this much coverage for the fact, so what it takes to make him notable for that is much more coverage than the norm. And writing a book isn't an automatic notability freebie either, if the only sources you can show for that are its primary source pages on the
self-published website of its own publisher and
Amazon.com — he needs to be the subject of
reliable source coverage about his writing to get a Wikipedia article for being a writer, but none at all is being shown here.
Bearcat (
talk)
00:06, 15 August 2017 (UTC)reply
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