Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Henry Smolen
per nom. Municipal councillors in small towns are not automatically notable just for existing, but rather get Wikipedia articles ''only'' if you can source and substance them a ''lot'' better than this — and unsuccessful candidates for higher office get articles ''only'' if they already have some other valid and properly sourced claim of notability ''independent'' of the candidacy. Plus it's one of my own personal rules that if you have to source stuff directly to their death notice on the web page of the ''funeral home'' that ''held'' their funeral, then practically by definition it's unlikely that there's enough media coverage of them to get them past : the deaths of ''notable'' people, after all, get ''written'' about by the media as ''news'', while the death notice on the funeral home's webpage is normally written by their own family
— User:Bearcat, 21:58, 22 February 2016 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:GNG (Wikipedia:Notability)