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The result was delete. MBisanz ^talk 03:19, 13 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Jim Mitchell (Louisiana judge)[edit]

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Not notable local judge. ...William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 12:02, 19 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Law-related deletion discussions. ...William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 12:04, 19 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Louisiana-related deletion discussions. ...William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 12:04, 19 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete, no indicia of particular notability, per WP:USCJN. bd2412 T 18:40, 19 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep the references look fine to me. We have articles on mayors and other local politicians so long as the references are there and you can write a full article. Usually you can only write a stub and I can see merging all the stubs into one article on the position held, but this is a full biography. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 18:39, 25 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • @Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ): This article consists of the usual Billy Hathorn (the article creator) padding, the first paragraph bio is almost all based on an obituary and therefore can be deleted. His family section isn't about him at all. So we have 3.5 paragraphs to establish notability. 1 of which is entirely about his getting elected to local office. The other two are about trials he presided over. Just run of the mill work done by a local judge. There are thousands upon thousands of local judges across the United States like Mitchell and overwhelmingly they fail WP:USCJN in almost all instances....William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 14:11, 26 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • You wrote: "the first paragraph bio is almost all based on an obituary and therefore can be deleted" can you show me that obituary rule. I think you are confusing rules for notability versus reliability. A family written obituary is entirely reliable, but would not count toward notability. There is no rule demanding that it be deleted, that is why a bot reversed a previous deletion of an obituary, thinking it was vandalism. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 14:46, 26 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep The scope and breadth of the sources about his service as a judge -- including regarding his court decisions -- combined with other coverage unequivocally about him all establish notability. Alansohn (talk) 20:55, 2 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete. unlessthere can be references found for the more general impact of the cases mentioned. This is OR based on primary sources, not an encyclopedia article. DGG ( talk ) 03:37, 3 August 2017 (UTC) DGG ( talk ) 03:37, 3 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete - I'm not seeing anything out of the ordinary here that would suggest this belongs in Wikipedia. The closest thing to notability is the court cases, which were randomly assigned to him, and were certainly nothing like the trial that brought Judge Lance Ito to fame. TimTempleton ^{(talk) (cont)} 00:48, 4 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. Nothing in the sources suggest that this local judge did anything that tens of thousands of other local judges across the US do. Doesn't meet notability guidelines. agtx 21:22, 7 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete as a local judge (despite the fancy title "circuit", he was a trial judge) who fails my standards for jurists. Bearian (talk) 03:12, 8 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep. Article does not indicate that Mr. Mitchell was a circuit judge. Meets notability under "Local Politician" with sufficient notations.2602:304:B23B:54B0:C069:7500:B4A7:352C (talk) 14:49, 11 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
• Weak delete, local guy doing local things, sources are routine reports.  Sandstein  15:43, 11 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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