Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chris Hennessy

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result of the debate was delete. Johnleemk | Talk 16:01, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Chris Hennessy

Prod was removed by creator and improperly replaced by anon. moving to AfD instead. Few google hits per prod, true, but was able to confirm that he's a real councilman and that he's really 21. See Google results. Ordinarily, a Bay City councilman would be nn. Does that fact that Chris was elected at 20 change that? You decide. For my money, it's Keep - the.crazy.russian (T) (C) (E) 01:29, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

• Keep per nom, local political figure. Royboycrashfan 01:36, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, being the youngest elected official in the county seems to make him notable enough --TBC^{??? ??? ???} 01:45, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
• Weak Delete. Have the distinction of "youngest elected official in the county" doesn't give Hennessy international notability; Wikipedia is not a county-wide encyclopedia. In my view, Hennessy is exaclty as notable as any other Bay City councilman - which is not notable enough for a Wikipedia entry. --Hyperbole 02:10, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete NN. Every few years some teenager gets elected to something, somewhere, and makes the news for a few days. He's the youngest elected official in some rural county in Michigan? Don't see that it qualifies as notable. Fan1967 03:43, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per Hyperbole and Fan-1967. Joe 03:53, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
• Doesn't appear to have passed guidelines for inclusion of humans, delete unless more evidence presented.
  brenneman^{L} 05:27, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
• Weak Keep minor minor notability.Blnguyen | Have your say!!! 05:40, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete; a local politician does not meet WP:BIO, regardless of how much of an issue age might be... and if the county charter simply says that there's no minimum age, then it really isn't much of one. (Similarly, I know college students who have been elected aldermen in New Haven, and I doubt that any of them are worthy of inclusion, even the youngest one). In other words, the youngest person to do something non-notable is still non-notable.--Kinu ^t/_c 07:16, 21 March 2006 (UTC), amended 06:35, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per Fan1967. Feezo (Talk) 07:27, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. Being a city official is not enough. Being the youngest such in some district is not enough either. - Andre Engels 08:56, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. Being young just gives him more time to achieve something notable in the future, it doesn't make him notable in itself. Average Earthman 09:40, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. Hayley Wain is a 20 year old (18 at time of last election) councillor in Wellington. She doesn't deserve an article. And neither does this guy. Think of the precedent set ("Well, sixty-six is passed retirement age, so that must be notable" etc etc). --Midnighttonight 10:19, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
• Weak Keep, this article asserts some notability in some way. --Terence Ong 13:50, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Taking others word for it that councilmen are nn (I'm not familiar with the US local political system; the average Brit councillor would be nn for sure) the only question remaining is "does his age make him any extra notable?". My answer - certainly not. He's a young adult, he got elected, so what. Terence, what is this notability assertion you speak of and how does it affect an AFD debate? Sure, he's not a CSD A7 because there's some assertion, but beyond that the notability is what we're here to decide. Have I missed something? Or is he just a young fella that got a local council seat? What's your rationale that he's notable enough to be in an international encylopedia? --kingboyk 16:25, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete doesn't seem notable enough. Oliver Keenan 20:45, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per WP:BIO... plus nothing good has ever come out of Bay City, Michigan: Madonna, Annie Edson Taylor, John List, & Isotope23 being just a few examples of the miscreants that place has produced.--Isotope23 20:51, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

... not to mention that it inspired the name of Bay City Rollers. Fan1967 03:55, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

• Delete, very amusing. NN. ProhibitOnions 21:02, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, just not notable enough Gflores ^Talk 06:31, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
• Weak keep: Clearly, someone has to be the youngest, so that much is unremarkable. Then again, Wikipedia is not paper. Peter Grey 06:31, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
• Weak DeleteCurrently not notable. --Soumyasch 06:34, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Someone always has to be the youngest. Chairman S. ^Talk 06:45, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Expand please --DragonWR12LB 07:01, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
• Smerge with John D. Cherry. -Colin Kimbrell 13:22, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep because he's related to John Cherry. -- JJay 22:27, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
• Weak Delete "youngest in county history" isn't quite enough to cross the notability threshold. OhNoitsJamie^Talk 22:53, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
• weak keep for now. But can we get a notice on the talk page proposing it for future reconsideration of deletion? JeffBurdges 04:20, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per WP:BIO. He's just a minor local politician. Why would we want to keep it now and delete it later?! Friday (talk) 20:38, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

Yes, your right, if he ever get an article for another reason, such as being a less minor politician, then I'm sure some admin will see the old deleted version, and include that information. So abstain. JeffBurdges 15:49, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

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.