Deletion of Hugh Smith (news anchor)

Comment: The http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hugh_Smith_%28news_anchor%29&diff=296387732&oldid=296264419 removal of many sources toward  have been repaired by the addition of 2 in-depth articles written of the subject by the two major newspapers in that area... the Tampa Tribune (http://www.burrellesluce.com/top100/2008_Top_100List.pdf #38 in the nations top 100 newspapers) and the St. Petersberg Times (http://www.burrellesluce.com/top100/2008_Top_100List.pdf #20 in the nation's top 100 newspapers). Their serving an area of nearly 3 million people http://recenter.tamu.edu/Data/popm/pm8280.htm, shows coverage to nearly 10% of the http://www.google.com/publicdata?ds=uspopulation&met=population&tdim=true&q=US+population U.S. population.  Guideline does not mandate  coverage to be national or international to be considered "significant"... and whether for "just" 3 million or for 300 million, notability is notability.  The subject meets  and 
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Comment: after weeding out advertisements, blog posts, duplicate links, and very brief offhand mentions (less than half a sentence) in articles chiefly about other subjects, the article looks like http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hugh_Smith_(news_anchor)&oldid=296387231 this. The remaining references are a non-biographical profile of all of the news anchors of Tampa Bay, a brief mention that WTVT changed news directors (mentioning Hugh Smith as the second of two job changes), and an article that is about Hugh Smith getting a radio job after his television career was ruined. All are in the ''St. Petersburg Times''. Two peripheral mentions and one article about Hugh Smith, all in the same newspaper, are not |significant coverage in reliable sources. The only significant coverage is an obvious  candidate. This is not sufficient for an encyclopedia biography
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