Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Richard Thornton (politician)

Richard Thornton (politician)

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A PROD tag was removed without discernable improvement. This individual doesn't appear to meet WP:POLITICIAN and there are no other reasonable sources of notability suggested; no reliable sources that would allow anyone to verify the assertions have been provided. Accounting4Taste:talk 00:20, 25 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

~~Comment~~Deleteas failing to satisfy WP:BIO. Found two sources at Google Book search and added to the article. One, a book on the Orange Order quotes him on two pages. The other, a snippet from U.S. News and World report, says he was a Protestant leader in Ulster. A bit slim with respect to notability. Edison (talk) 00:26, 25 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

This gentleman was my grandfather, everything i have stated is correct and i would appreciate it if you left this alone thankyou. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Julian805 (talk • contribs) 01:01, 25 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - I'm not sure what counts as notability on those parts, but he sure doesn't sound sufficiently notable for our purposes here. Rklawton (talk) 01:31, 25 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Where i live his name is very well remembered, in fact if you ask anyone in our local county his name they will no who he was and what he did. It would be a great shame to delete this page as I know local schools and the local museum are using it for research. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.134.7.133 (talk) 14:15, 25 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - we call that "local" or "regional" notability, and that is exactly not sufficient for inclusion in Wikipedia. Rklawton (talk) 14:17, 25 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I have added as many refrences as i can find on the internet. I created the page because schools where looking information on him and this was the best way to do it. It is 100% accurate and will be a great shame to lose it.