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Not-notable, only sources show he is a board member for 'BART'. The sources could be used to note this fact on the
Bay Area Rapid Transit District page. this article has no other content. Its creator is a now blocked sockpuppet.
Dysklyver 22:30, 13 October 2017 (UTC)reply
Delete. Serving on the board of a transit agency is not an automatic notability freebie just because the person exists — to deem him notable for this, there would need to be a lot more substance than just two sentences which only just barely go any further than "Zakhary Mallett is a person who exists". And the referencing here consists of three sources that glancingly namecheck his existence in the process of being about a transit extension, and one op-ed that he wrote himself — but to get him over
WP:GNG, the sourcing would have to be much more substantively about him than this.
Bearcat (
talk) 23:40, 13 October 2017 (UTC)reply
Delete not notable. Unlike the references in the article,
[1] is somewhat substantial, but the summary of that article is that he's not notable based on his tenure on the BART board.
power~enwiki (
π,
ν) 15:43, 16 October 2017 (UTC)reply
Delete Ok, there's press that includes mention of him
[2], but the press that exists is less about him than about the board he sat on. Outside of his work on the board, there's no question he fails our notability standards. I don't think his being on the board, nor his work in being on the board, helps him exceed our
WP:GNG or
WP:BIO, or more specifically
WP:NPOL. Contrast another board member,
Joel Keller, who is arguably notable for having been mayor of
Antioch, California. Another board member for whom we have an article is
Robert Raburn, is not a good example as that is a likely failure of our standards as well. --
Hammersoft (
talk) 20:16, 16 October 2017 (UTC)reply
I agree and have therefore created an AfD for Robert Raburn
here.
Lepricavark (
talk) 04:17, 20 October 2017 (UTC)reply
Delete fails GNG. As has been delineated above, his board membership does not make him notable and there is basically nothing else to go on.
Lepricavark (
talk) 04:17, 20 October 2017 (UTC)reply
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