Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Zakhary Mallett

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The result was delete. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 19:24, 20 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Zakhary Mallett

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Not-notable, only sources show he is a board member for 'BART'. The sources could be used to note this fact on the Bay Area Rapid Transit District page. this article has no other content. Its creator is a now blocked sockpuppet. Dysklyver 22:30, 13 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. Dysklyver 22:30, 13 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete. Serving on the board of a transit agency is not an automatic notability freebie just because the person exists — to deem him notable for this, there would need to be a lot more substance than just two sentences which only just barely go any further than "Zakhary Mallett is a person who exists". And the referencing here consists of three sources that glancingly namecheck his existence in the process of being about a transit extension, and one op-ed that he wrote himself — but to get him over WP:GNG, the sourcing would have to be much more substantively about him than this. Bearcat (talk) 23:40, 13 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Delete not notable. Unlike the references in the article, [1] is somewhat substantial, but the summary of that article is that he's not notable based on his tenure on the BART board. power~enwiki (π, ν) 15:43, 16 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Ok, there's press that includes mention of him [2], but the press that exists is less about him than about the board he sat on. Outside of his work on the board, there's no question he fails our notability standards. I don't think his being on the board, nor his work in being on the board, helps him exceed our WP:GNG or WP:BIO, or more specifically WP:NPOL. Contrast another board member, Joel Keller, who is arguably notable for having been mayor of Antioch, California. Another board member for whom we have an article is Robert Raburn, is not a good example as that is a likely failure of our standards as well. --Hammersoft (talk) 20:16, 16 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I agree and have therefore created an AfD for Robert Raburn here. Lepricavark (talk) 04:17, 20 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Delete fails GNG. As has been delineated above, his board membership does not make him notable and there is basically nothing else to go on. Lepricavark (talk) 04:17, 20 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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