Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/D. W. Clendenan

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The result was soft delete. WP:REFUND applies. So Why 07:21, 5 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

D. W. Clendenan

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Biography of a person notable primarily as an early establisher and mayor of a small village that's since been subsumed as a city neighbourhood. This isn't sourced to any substantive coverage of him, but merely to namechecks of his existence in a community history book about the neighbourhood. While it's not impossible for people of purely local smalltown notability to get into Wikipedia, it does require significantly more sourceability than this — but there's just not a lot of improved sourcing to be had, because even in The Globe and Mail archive I get far more articles written by him than about him. And the fact that the article states a cause of death, but not a date, rather implies that this was based more on primary source archival documents (family letters?) rather than reliable source coverage — because if that information had been gleaned from a newspaper article, then even if that source hadn't included a specific death date we could still approximate one by virtue of the article's publication date. Bearcat (talk) 16:02, 11 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 16:06, 11 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Ontario-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 16:06, 11 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ad Orientem (talk) 00:39, 19 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Delete This is so much just name checking we do not even have birth and death years for Clendenan.John Pack Lambert (talk) 17:35, 26 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, So Why 06:30, 27 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.