Deletion of Eric Ely

Comment: WP:BLP1E writ large. This is a news story about an event, masquerading as a biography of one of the players in the event.  fail
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (WP:TABLOID)

Comment: Not notable person, one event controversy. 
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons (WP:BLP1E)

Comment: Have the people praising the sourcing for this article actually read the sources? From what I can see, none of the sources that discuss Ely in any detail are independent. In fact all of them appear to be affiliated with the Schenectady school district. The bulk of the rest mention Ely's name once or twice, but are generally only passing mentions that note he is the superintendent of the district where "issue a" or "issue b" is being discussed. At least two are from blogs associated with newspapers, and one is an editorial. Outside from the pages supplied by his employer, the only sources that discuss him in depth are related to the arson controversy. This fails olitician and the sourcing is dreadful. This needs to be deleted
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Portal (WP:P)

Comment: I am still working on this article.  For example, I just added more information to the lede within seconds after this AfD nomination.  Even before the current controversy, Ely was a "go-to guy" on school budget issues in New York.  He managed a 9-figure budget. There are numerous |reliable sources in the article, many of which are exclusively about Ely. Every sentence is properly cited per 
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Reliable sources (WP:RS||WP:BLP)

Comment: Apart from the |one event in question, this person doesn't seem to be any more notable than the average school superintendent. I could probably piece together a Wikipedia biography on the local superintendent by digging through isolated articles in the local paper, but that would constitute |original research by synthesis. I think we fall into that trap when we synthesize "biographies" on people who have received no real ''biographical'' coverage from reliable sources, and who have only been covered in the context of specific incidents in which they were involved or alleged to be involved
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Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:BIO1E||WP:SYNTH)

Comment: References to  are in my mind irrelevant to this discussion. The subject of the article is ''not'' a politician and never has been. Superintendents in New York are chosen by their respective boards of education, in a similar way that university presidents are chosen by a board of trustees or that a CEO is chosen by a board of directors. They are not politically appointed positions nor are they elected positions. The board of ed is a collection of elected individuals from a given district, however the process is non-political. No political parties are represented and the board members are not paid. They serve as volunteers and the superintendents serve as CEOs of their districts
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:POLITICIAN)

Comment: Per nominator and in agreement with Greg L.  It is relevant that Schenectady is a small town, that we would not even be considering the article were it not for the  single event, and that there is nothing particularly noteworthy about the event itself.  (We quite properly don't have an article about the arsonist.)  Small town bureaucrat under fire for not dealing correctly with an employee issue isn't sufficient for a Wikipedia entry.  If this guy runs for governor someday, or something of that nature, then perhaps an article could become viable.  But as it is, he's simply not notable but for this controversy. (I am commenting as an ordinary user here, not making a decree or anything wild like that
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons (WP:BLP1E)

Comment: I hate voting against an article because so much work is devoted to creating content and so often, articles are nominated for AfD because of long-running disputes. But I fully agree with the nominator in this case.   states {{xt|Merely being in the news does not imply someone should be the subject of Wikipedia article. If reliable sources cover the person only in the context of a single event, and if that person otherwise remains, or is likely to remain, a low-profile individual, we should generally avoid having an article on them.}} In this case, the article states {{xt|He generated ongoing national news}}… yet there are precious few citations in that article (none that I could find in a quick scan, actually) that link to a national source such as CNN. In fact, both citations to that last quote were to a local newspaper and the local CBS affiliate, http://www.cbs6albany.com/news/ely-1272655-district-school.html cbs6albany. This subject, while no-doubt a big deal in Schenectady, has made barely a blip in the national news—let alone “ongoing” national news. I would say it is demonstrably a “single event” of a “low-profile individual” and, in accordance with Wikipedia guidelines, does not belong on Wikipedia
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons (WP:BLP1E)