Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Francis Xavier Ransdell
District court is not a level of office that confers an automatic pass of our notability standards for judges, but this article is not |reliably sourced anywhere near well enough to get him over the bar: the "sources" are family genealogies, a clarifying note that is not any sort of source at all, a source which gives the publisher and date but fails to provide the title of the article being referenced, and the obituary of his grandson, zero of which represent notability-supporting reliable source coverage ''about Ransdell''. To be honest, I'm pretty sure that despite the different username, the nominator's "mistaken" initial impression about the creator of this was actually ''correct'' — it literally has ''all'' the classic hallmarks of Billy Hathorn's work, from the "local officials in Louisiana" angle to the complete and total reliance on garbage sourcing, and all of Gulfstream411's contributions were created during a period when Billy had just been released from his first copyvio-related editblock but had not actually resumed editing under his original username yet — in other words, ''exactly'' the period when he was routinely evading the first block with many other sockpuppets. And for added bonus, just take a ''wild'' guess who was the very ''first'' person to ever touch the article after Gulfstream411 was done with it. An SPI check would be pointless now, as both accounts are almost certainly too stale to definitively link anymore, but I'm quite convinced that Gulfstream411 was a Billy puppet
— User:Bearcat, 15:22, 6 October 2019 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:RS (Wikipedia:Reliable sources)