Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ron Book

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.

The result was delete‎. ✗plicit 12:53, 22 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Bio of a state-level lobbyist that looks to me like a borderline attack page. No real notability and much of the article is about misdemeanors. Mccapra (talk) 10:20, 12 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Crime, Politics, and Florida. Mccapra (talk) 10:20, 12 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete Article takes a miscellany of media appearances by the subject and cherry-picks the most embarrassing or troubling detail to paste on a Wikipedia wall of shame, with very little actual information about the subject. This isn't what WP is for, someone is WP:NOTHERE. WeirdNAnnoyed (talk) 12:22, 12 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Update the article has been edited to remove the misdemeanours so it’s no longer a borderline attack page. It’s now just a stub that tells us he is a lobbyist who had clients, a trustee for a local charity that does good work and was investigated by the FBI. There is a case that the subject passes WP:BASIC but looking at the sources I’m not sure how you would write a fuller biography of this subject without it just being a laundry list of complaints, allegations and misdemeanours. Mccapra (talk) 07:32, 18 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗plicit 14:06, 19 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete - the only thing that made him notable was removed from the article. A similar thing happened 18 years ago, when significant coverage about a school district superintendent's uncharged crimes were removed, leaving nothing but his resume. So it got deleted. Then he moved twice to get away from his past. End of story. Bearian (talk) 05:37, 22 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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