Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jeff Ritterman
Purely local coverage in a person's own hometown media market, in exclusively local interest contexts like being president of an organization's local chapter, is not in and of itself a free pass over . To earn a place in Wikipedia, a person needs to have a much more nationalized claim of significance, and much more nationalized coverage for it, than just a smattering of hits in a midsized city's community hyperlocal. As I've explained to the creator in other concurrent AFD discussions on their recent work, GNG is ''not'' just "count up the media hits and keep anything that surpasses an arbitrary number" — lots of people get purely local coverage in contexts that fall ''below'' our inclusion tests, so GNG does not just consider the number of footnotes: it also tests the depth of how substantively any given source is or is not ''about him'', the geographic ''range'' of how widely he's ''getting'' covered, and the ''context'' of what he's getting coverage ''for'', and some types of coverage count for a lot less than others do. The ''New York Times'' hit, for example, is not ''about Jeff Ritterman'', but just glancingly mentions his name a single time as a giver of soundbite in an article about something other than him — and that is ''not'' a type of "coverage" that bolsters his notability at all, because ''he'' is not the ''subject'' of the piece
— User:Bearcat, 04:09, 26 December 2019 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:GNG (Wikipedia:Notability)