Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Theodore Fields
County freeholder is not an office that confers an automatic  pass, and the sourcing here is not adequate to demonstrate that he's more notable than the norm for an otherwise non-notable office. One source is not an automatic GNG pass just because it has the word "cyclopedia" in its own name — an entry in the ''Encyclopedia Brittanica'' or a ''national'' dictionary of biographies would certainly count for something, but a ''local'' "encyclopedia" is not automatically enough. The entry would have to be in an encyclopedia that is itself notable and widely recognized enough for us to have an article ''about the encyclopedia'', not just in ''any'' random book that ''calls'' itself an encyclopedia. Every single person who ever held ''any'' office at the municipal or county levels ''anywhere'' could ''always'' be sourced to ''one'' blurb in a purely local directory of local officeholders — so if that were enough for a keep in and of itself, we'd have to keep an article about ''everybody'' who ever served at that level of office
— User:Bearcat, 19:07, 6 February 2018 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:NPOL (Wikipedia:Notability)