Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Elliot Ross Buckley
Being simply a nominee for office does not constitute notability per , nor does the OSHRC office.  Also of note is that almost the entire article is ''unsourced'' from |reliable sources.  The article reads like an obituary because that is the only source for almost all of it: his obituary.  The author of this article frequently creates articles about non-notable individuals and sources those articles with nothing (or almost nothing) more than the individual's family-provided, small-town newspaper obituary.  While reporter bylined obituaries (such as those found in the ''New York Times'') would be acceptable sources, family-provided obituaries in small newspapers are not.  Such family-provided obituaries do not indicate notability (anyone can submit one; they indicate that his family thought he was notable, but not that anyone else thought so), nor are they reliable sources, because they are not subjected to any extensive fact-checking by a reporter or editor. If what the family says seems plausible, then it runs.  This appears to be the case with Buckley's obituary listed as a reference for this article, since there is no reporter listed as the obituary's author, and since the ''Las Cruces Sun-News'' is indeed a small newspaper that accepts and runs family-provided obituaries.  If the article is kept, it should be reduced to a stub of info that is verifiable from sources ''other'' than that obituary:  cousin of WFB Jr., that he ran for congress, that he ran for mayor, his tenure on the OSHRC, and that's about it
— User:Mwelch, 01:40, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:BIO||WP:RS (Wikipedia:Notability)