Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Richard Thornton (politician)
as it stands. He has more notability than your typical councillor, but it is still way short of the |notability standards for people. Julian805, if you want to demonstrate notability you may need to search a bit further than the internet because he was clearly active pre-internet. Was he written about in books/newspapers at the time. If so, that may make him notable. But we can't just indiscriminately accept articles based on one person's assertions that it's true and important. All such claims must be |verifiable. If you really want local schools to have access to online information about him, you can always |try another wiki
— User:Chris, 17:10, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:BIO||WP:V||WP:ALTOUT (Wikipedia:Notability)