Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Frank Baker (politician)

Frank Baker (politician)

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Non-notable local politician. WP:POLOUTCOMES notes that municipal politicians aren't inherently notable, and while Boston is a major city, the article only consists (after copyvio was removed) of the fact that he's a representative. Also not seeing any significant coverage in a BEFORE search. creffett (talk) 20:48, 16 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. creffett (talk) 20:48, 16 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions. creffett (talk) 20:48, 16 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Massachusetts-related deletion discussions. creffett (talk) 20:48, 16 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete, without prejudice against recreation in the future if somebody can do better than this. To be fair, Boston is a large and important enough city that we would very likely accept substantive and well-sourced articles about its city councillors — but this article literally just states that he exists and single-sources that existence to his primary source profile on the city council's own website, which is not a notability-supporting source. The notability test for local politicians is the ability to write and source an article with some actual substance to it, not just the ability to primary source his existence — so if somebody can tackle writing an article that actually features some detail about his political career and some quality reliable sources to support it, then that would be different, but this as written is not enough. Bearcat (talk) 00:18, 17 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]