Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bob Dunn (Washington politician)

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I guess absent other achievements just being a member of a county council is not sufficient for notability. (Probably other members should be checked as well). Ymblanter (talk) 07:46, 3 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Ymblanter (talk) 07:46, 3 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Washington-related deletion discussions. Ymblanter (talk) 07:46, 3 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep. he was an inaugural member of a county council in a very large county. Thomascampbell123 (talk) 08:03, 3 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. County council is not a level of office that confers an automatic notability freebie on everybody who holds it — the notability test for politicians at the local level of office is not passed just by minimally verifying that the person exists or existed, and instead requires the ability to write a substantive and well sourced article about his political significance: specific things he did, specific projects he spearheaded, specific effects he had on the history and development of the county, and on and so forth. But that's just not what this article is: it just states that he existed, the end, and sources his existence to one obituary in the local newspaper and a one-off namecheck of his existence in a listicle of everybody who ever served on the county council at all. That's just not enough. Bearcat (talk) 14:43, 3 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep. Found and added important information about him including his civility and how he pushed for an officially nonpartisan council Thomascampbell123 (talk) 15:58, 3 October 2021 (UTC) — Duplicate !vote: Thomascampbell123 (talk • contribs) has already cast a !vote above.[reply]

  No need to vote twice, your opinion is clear.--Ymblanter (talk) 17:42, 3 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete Doubtful that he meets WP:NPOLorWP:GNG. Current members of this Council may have the chance to improve their notability, but this person never will. KidAd • SPEAK 17:10, 4 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• RedirecttoKing County Council. It is possible that more information is in the archives from which an article could be created to show more that "he exists." --Enos733 (talk) 18:58, 4 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete per Standards politicians are only notable and included if they are at minimum state wide. This guy never held a state wide fold or larger. Hence this should be deleted.--Rrmmll22 (talk) 18:32, 10 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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