Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Roy Barrera Jr.

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The result was delete. -- RoySmith (talk) 13:38, 28 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Roy Barrera Jr.

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County-level GOP chairman who had a failed run at Texas Attorney General. Fails WP:NPOL and nothing in my search turned up enough to establish WP:GNG. The only two sources for the article are the subject's mother's obituary and a link to the history of the Bexar County Republican Party. I was planning on PROD-ing this article but given that recently several other articles created by the since-banned Billy Hathorn were recently de-PRODed by random IPs I figured I might as well skip that step. GPL93 (talk) 21:09, 20 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Bakazaka (talk) 23:15, 20 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Law-related deletion discussions. Bakazaka (talk) 23:15, 20 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Texas-related deletion discussions. Bakazaka (talk) 23:15, 20 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete, per nom. Minor figure of no real significance. -R. fiend (talk) 15:10, 21 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per my standards for lawyers. He was a major trial court judge, candidate for major legal office, and a political insider. FWIW, I used to be a Democratic committee person. Bearian (talk) 01:59, 22 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Bearian in Texas district courts are not particularly major courts, there are 27 judicial districts in Bexar County alone. Simply being a candidate in a statewide election and being active in local politics fails WP:NPOL. Furthermore, I could only find one actual independent news article covering him, from his run in 1986. While I understand that the benchmarks that you use can certainly aid in establishing whether or not one is notable, there still aren't any real sources to establish WP:GNG and he meets no inclusionary standard. Best, GPL93 (talk) 19:11, 22 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the comments. Bearian (talk) 19:33, 22 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete way too many district courts to make a judge at this level notable, nothing else even comes close to notability.John Pack Lambert (talk) 00:09, 23 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. A judge at this level might qualify for an article if he could be well-sourced as clearing GNG for it, but it's not a level that guarantees every judge an article regardless of sourceability just because they existed — and being a non-winning political candidate doesn't bolster his notability at all. If all we can show for referencing is primary sources and the routine obituary of his mother, that's not enough to make a judge or a non-winning political candidate notable. Bearcat (talk) 23:43, 25 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. State district court judges are not inherently notable. The subject fails WP:NPOL, and nothing else in his career has attracted enough attention to clear WP:BIO. Lagrange 613 05:39, 28 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.