Wiki143:Articles for deletion/Eugene Nickerson

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The result was Keep (non-admin closure), as notability is confirmed. Ecoleetage (talk) 00:12, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

Eugene Nickerson

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local politician, fails WP:BIO#Basic criteria, WP:POLITICIAN (nom by User:DanielPenfield -- DGG)

• Keep. He was a "local politician" in the sense that he was the chief executive of Nassau County, New York, a very populous and important county. After that he was a federal judge for 24 years. JamesMLane t c 02:17, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
• Keep In my opinion, notability from being an official of some county is not sufficient absent significant press coverage. However, in his capacity as a United States District Judge, he appears to have had a hand in multiple highly contentious cases, and in fact the article seems to have been cribbed in large part from a NYT obituary. There may be copyright issues here, but I'm not an expert on fair use, so I'll leave be since the topic is notable. RayAYang (talk) 02:53, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. —JamesMLane t c 03:28, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of New York-related deletion discussions. -- RayAYang (talk) 03:31, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
• Weak keep His judicial rulings in some well known cases very likely have substantial coverage (as yet undemonstrated). His having served as a county executive is not as significant as his judicial career. Edison2 (talk) 04:06, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

• Keep Nassau County executive is the equivalent of mayor of a city. It's an elected position, " the head of the executive branch of government in a county" The importance will obviously depend on the country involved--over 1 million counts as notable--we routinely accept mayor mayors at 1/10 of that. QAnd he held the position for many yrs. And the sources fully show the importance, as one would expect. Careless nomination, a full NYT obituary has always 100% been accepted as sufficient,even for local figures--they are not generous with these, like some local papers are. Further, US District Judge has always been accepted as notable also--there are only 678 of them in the whole country.DGG (talk) 10:36, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
  • Comment Since Wikipedia is not a memorial, having an obituary in a major newspaper has never, by itself established notability. Edison2 (talk) 05:31, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
• Keep Significant elected position. Obviously notable. Edward321 (talk) 13:33, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

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