Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/James M. Carroll
Serving on a county council is not an automatic free pass over , but the existence of two or three pieces of local coverage in the local media is ''not'' enough to actually get a local politician over the bar that he actually has to clear. GNG is ''not'' just "anybody who can be shown to have gotten their name into any newspaper twice or more for any reason" — it also tests for the ''depth'' of coverage, the geographic ''range'' of coverage, and the ''context'' of what the person is getting coverage ''for''. ''Every'' local politician ''everywhere'' can ''always'' show a couple of hits in their local media, so that's not enough to make a local politician notable in and of itself — "significant press coverage", for the purposes of NPOL #2, means you have to show much more than just the bare minimum of what every local politician can always show: ''deeper'' coverage (e.g. he was so locally important that somebody actually wrote and published a full book-length biography of him), ''more'' coverage (e.g. dozens of media hits and not just three, enabling the article to cover his political career in a really substantive and detailed way), and/or ''wider'' coverage (e.g. coverage that expands well ''beyond'' just the local media) than most other county councillors have. A county councillor is ''not'' notable enough for Wikipedia just because you can show two or three hits of routine local election reporting to verify an article that just reads like a thinly-veiled rewrite of his own "staff" profile on the council's own self-published website — to make a county councillor notable enough for inclusion here, you have to be able to write a lot more substance and cite a lot more sources than this
— User:Bearcat, 15:38, 4 April 2019 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:NPOL (Wikipedia:Notability)