Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Larry Stone

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The result was delete. Michig (talk) 07:42, 9 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Larry Stone

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Almost certainly either a WP:AUTOBIO or WP:PROMO based on its tone. His elected position fails WP:NPOL and all sources are primary and a search turned up nothing to establish WP:GNG. In my opinion it should be speedy deleted. GPL93 (talk) 16:32, 1 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

WP:NPOL includes "Major local political figures who have received significant press coverage". Larry Stone is one of the most notable, influential, and most quoted/interviewed of Santa Clara County local political figures - there are maybe 3 or 4 local regional politicians who can claim his level of influence, and a news search for references to him validates this.

Some of the self-serving language should probably be removed (like the entire Assessor Career section). A google search turned up four articles that would seem to fall within WP:GNG: https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/02/28/sunnyvale-larry-stone-honored-by-sunnyvale-chamber-of-commerce, https://www.mercurynews.com/2016/11/29/larry-stone-met-fidel-castro-in-1977, http://www.sanjoseinside.com/2012/06/26/6_26_12_santa_clara_county_assessor_larry_stone, https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/09/01/assessor-larry-stone-runs-again. JGriffithSV (talk) 19:01, 1 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Icewhiz (talk) 16:44, 1 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of California-related deletion discussions. Icewhiz (talk) 16:44, 1 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions. Icewhiz (talk) 16:45, 1 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Washington-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 17:11, 1 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. County assessor is not a level of office that confers an automatic WP:NPOL pass just because the person exists, but this isn't referenced anywhere near well enough to get him over the bar. Even the four sources JGriffithSV showed above aren't enough coverage to get him over WP:GNG by themselves — every officeholder at the county level in the entire United States can always show four pieces of local coverage, so that would make every county assessor and county councillor and county judge and county manager automatically notable. The notability test for a person at this level of prominence isn't just that the local coverage that would be routinely expected to exist can indeed be found to exist — it requires a volume of coverage that marks him out as significantly more notable than the norm for county assessors, namely coverage that nationalizes. And even if he actually had that, the article is written much more like a résumé than an encyclopedia article. Bearcat (talk) 21:15, 1 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete there are not enough sources to show notability.John Pack Lambert (talk) 22:27, 2 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete fails WP:GNG Reddragon7 (talk) 02:15, 8 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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