Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Erskine Oglesby Jr.

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The result was delete. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 07:32, 10 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Erskine Oglesby Jr.

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WP:BLP of a politician, notable primarily as a city councillor. Chattanooga is not in the rarefied class of cities where the municipal councillors are automatically accepted as "inherently" notable -- city councillors get that status only in if they serve in a global city on the order of New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Toronto or London, while Chattanooga is in the tier of cities where the city councillors get Wikipedia articles only if the sourcing demonstrates them as much more special than most other city councillors (such as by having media coverage that nationalizes far beyond just their local media market.) But with just 14 footnotes, of which 11 are primary sources, just three are real media and two of those three are routine reportage of election results, this is not the kind of sourcing that gets a city councillor over the bar. Bearcat (talk) 01:32, 3 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 01:32, 3 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Tennessee-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 01:32, 3 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Chatanooga is not a major enough city that council members are default notable, and there is not enough sourcing to show notability otherwise.John Pack Lambert (talk) 01:37, 3 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Weak keep - as a city council president, he could be considered notable, and will likely be in the news frequently. Bearian (talk) 21:01, 3 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

City council president is not a notability claim in and of itself. The notability criteria for city councillors are as I explained above: either they serve in a global city on the New York City-Los Angeles-Chicago axis, or their coverage nationalizes to the point where they have a credible claim to being much more nationally notable than most other city councillors. Simply holding the title of "city council president" is not an instant notability freebie that exempts a city councillor from still having to show that his depth and range and volume of coverage has gone significantly above and beyond the ordinary and expected. Bearcat (talk) 21:26, 3 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Does not pass WP:GNG based on the sourcing in the article - Facebook and campaign websites don't count, and there's scant coverage apart from routine election reporting. SportingFlyer T·C 07:54, 5 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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