Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Arling Wiederspahn
Article lists ten "references".  Only four of the "reference" links currently mention the subject of this article in '''''any''''' way, and each mention is trivial.  The entirety of the information about the subject that can be discerned from all ten "references" combined is that the subject existed, married a woman named Edvina, founded a funeral home, funded a scholarship and donated to the Community House charitable organization.  Obviously, none of those things make the subject notable per .  Everything else in this article is completely unsourced.  Since the author has a habit of creating Wikipedia biography articles about people based on their obituaries in their local newspaper, I suspect that's also the source of this information.  The first listed "reference" appears to be a link to an obituary, though the link is now outdated.  Of course, family-provided obits are not reliable sources because they do not indicate notability (anybody whose family submits one, gets one printed; no indication that anyone other than the family found the person notable) and because they are not fact-checked (the family gets to say pretty much anything they want that seems plausible and it will run like that).  Other claims (not validated by references in the article) to notability would be that he was elected county coroner, was elected to a community college board, was appointed to the state's Board of Embalming and that he was the first person in Wyoming to offer cremation as a burial service.  The first two claims are quite explicitly mentioned by  as being insufficient ("Just being an elected local official does not guarantee notability.") for . There's also nothing in  to indicate serving on an appointed board, in the absence of any non-trivial secondary source coverage, is . The final claim about being the first in the state to cremate seems more interesting.  Maybe there could be something there, but again the article provides '''''no''''' |reliable source to even indicate that that claim is true, much less that any secondary sources consider such a claim to be particularly noteworthy
— User:Mwelch, 00:33, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:BIO||WP:BIO||WP:N||WP:BIO||WP:N||WP:RS (Wikipedia:Notability)