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The result was delete.
✗plicit 12:09, 21 July 2021 (UTC)reply
Not notable and therefore nothing more than WP:BIO violation bait.
Central and Adams (
talk) 01:34, 26 June 2021 (UTC)reply
Addendum: The only reliable sourcing is mostly about his 2011 Twitter controversy, which is
WP:ONEEVENT at best. Furthermore the only RS piece that addressed more than that was an op-ed by Steve Lopez, which is hardly news reporting, although, as I said, it is at least RS.
Central and Adams (
talk) 02:38, 26 June 2021 (UTC)reply
Weak keep per
WP:BASIC. Disregarding the many mentions in the context of his job, (murders get a lot of press, and a homicide detective is often interviewed about the investigation), there are two long profiles on his retirement
[1][2] (the LA Weekly one has some decent bio details not in the article yet) and one shorter one.
[3] Then a long profile on him two years after his retirement.
[4] On the one hand, these are local coverage; on the other hand, the greater Los Angeles area is larger than Delaware and Rhode Island combined, so I don't think "local" is necessarily disqualifying in this instance. adding Per a source posted at
Talk:Sal LaBarbera, the LA Weekly profile is written by a friend of LaBarbera's, so is not independent for consideration of notability.
Schazjmd(talk) 17:35, 26 June 2021 (UTC)reply
Delete: As far as I can tell this is
WP:BLP1E for the dead body tweet which created a little local notoriety, but not true notability. Just a
WP:ROTM cop with a second career after retirement. Fails
WP:BIOFiddleTimtrentFaddleTalk to me 22:02, 30 June 2021 (UTC)reply
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,
✗plicit 01:36, 3 July 2021 (UTC)reply
The revision history of the article contains content that was removed for now, per
WP:ONUS, but which has also been addressed in the deletion discussion above. As the discussion seems to focus on notability, the current state of the article itself, and whether this material is currently part of it, should not have an influence.
~ ToBeFree (
talk) 21:46, 5 July 2021 (UTC)reply
Delete Fails
GNG and per above, coverage is not enough to qualify GNG.
DmitriRomanovJr (
talk) 05:18, 6 July 2021 (UTC)reply
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,
78.26(
spin me /
revolutions) 14:43, 15 July 2021 (UTC)reply
Delete. Source is sketchy at best, but even if it were immaculate, still fails the "significant coverage in multiple reliable sources" test (
WP:GNG). And even if subject were to be seen as notable, it's only for
WP:ONEEVENT. Two grounds for deletion clearly established.
Johnnie Bob (
talk) 19:18, 15 July 2021 (UTC)reply
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