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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John Stephen Dwyer

: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. Salvio Let's talk about it! 10:42, 18 May 2014 (UTC)

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Being a justice of the peace doesn't satisfy the notability requirements. Wikipedia is not a memorial. Clarityfiend (talk) 22:48, 25 April 2014 (UTC)

:One of my own unofficial rules is that if you have to quote the entirety of a person's newspaper obituary verbatim just to get the article past three sentences in length, then he probably doesn't have enough notability to actually warrant an article. And if the obituary is the only source in the article that's substantively about him, and not just a namecheck that lists him in passing, then he definitely doesn't have enough notability. Delete. Bearcat (talk) 06:38, 26 April 2014 (UTC)

:Note: This debate has been included in the list of Ireland-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 14:17, 26 April 2014 (UTC)

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:Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, czar ♔ 23:50, 9 May 2014 (UTC)

  • Delete - per nom Bali88 (talk) 00:25, 10 May 2014 (UTC)
  • Weak keep Not sure how we can say that being a Justice of the Peace isn't notable. Do we have any previous similar articles for comparison? Sources are present.--ЗAНИA talk [http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/User_talk:XaniaWB talk]] 21:46, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

:*If you examine :Category:Justices of the peace, you'll see that the few entries are for people who are notable for other things besides being a JP. Clarityfiend (talk) 22:46, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

::There are thousands upon thousands of Justices of the peace, so it's not like being governor of a state or something. They're just regular non-notable people. Most lawyers, judges, mayors, and other local officials are not notable enough to be on wikipedia. Bali88 (talk) 12:55, 17 May 2014 (UTC)

  • Delete - per nom. Not historically notable, article is a memorial to an ancestor of the creator. Snappy (talk) 11:17, 17 May 2014 (UTC)
  • Delete per nom. He verifiably existed, but was not notable. Wikipedia is not a genealogy. --Bejnar (talk) 23:55, 17 May 2014 (UTC)

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