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The result was delete. TonyBallioni (talk) 18:04, 12 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Frank Miles (treasurer)[edit]

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Inadequately sourced WP:BLP of a person notable only as a county treasurer. This is not a level of office that confers an automatic WP:NPOL pass -- it would be enough if he could be sourced as the subject of enough reliable source coverage to pass NPOL #2, but it's not an automatic inclusion freebie. All we have for sourcing here, however, is a single local source about him taking an even less inherently notable job after losing reelection as county treasurer. This is not what it takes to make a person at this level of office notable. Bearcat (talk) 00:23, 5 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Strong delete County treasures are not inherently notable. Nothing here suggests the article subject is notable.John Pack Lambert (talk) 01:21, 5 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Regards, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga (talk • mail) 02:15, 5 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Illinois-related deletion discussions. Regards, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga (talk • mail) 02:15, 5 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Delete I couldn't find any sources to establish the subject's notability. Fails WP:GNG. Regards, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga (talk • mail) 02:16, 5 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: I just overhauled and expanded the article. Miles has held a bunch of different elected offices (though often by appointment to a vacancy), and apparently been consistently in Madison County politics and administration for 25 years, and just moved to Florida this month. I don't know if that will get it over WP:GNG, but it might: He's probably had more news articles about him than I used for citations. --Closeapple (talk) 19:35, 5 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

It doesn't. Of the new sources you added, one is an 18-word blurb in the "where are they now?" column of his own alma mater's alumni magazine (i.e. not a substantive source for the purposes of passing WP:GNG), one is the primary source website of his own former employer (i.e. not an independent source for the purposes of passing GNG), and one is the standard and routine "candidate profile", involving the subject talking about himself in the first person, that every candidate in any election always gets. So there are only two sources that actually count for anything toward GNG, which still isn't enough coverage because every person at this level of significance could always show that much local coverage. Bearcat (talk) 19:57, 5 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Delete doesn't meet WP:NPOL and no other claim of notability; the existing references don't suggest that WP:GNG is met and all the coverage I can find is of his political campaigns. power~enwiki (π, ν) 04:07, 11 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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