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Delete small area mayor lacking sufficient sources to show notability.
John Pack Lambert (
talk) 16:20, 17 December 2017 (UTC)reply
Checking the contribution history shows that this !vote appears to have been prepared and posted in 1 minute and 8 seconds
after the previous !vote. Note that this !vote has not considered the
WP:ATD.
Unscintillating (
talk) 16:39, 21 December 2017 (UTC)reply
Merge and redirect to
City of Burnside. Small city local government mayor with no specific notability so no article in its own right. However, the subject is a multiply re-elected mayor involved in a State Government inquiry into aspects of the council with sources available to the extent a paragraph or two is warranted in
City of Burnside describing Parkin's involvement and a little more broadly.
Aoziwe (
talk) 11:55, 18 December 2017 (UTC)reply
A paragraph or two is much undue, methinks. There's right now only a paragraph on the entire inquiry, and there have been numerous mayors consider how old the city is.
Galobtter (
pingó mió) 04:07, 19 December 2017 (UTC)reply
Okay - a extra sentence, or at most two, to that paragraph.
Aoziwe (
talk) 12:38, 20 December 2017 (UTC)reply
Delete The subject does not appear to be the subject of national or international coverage and the population of the city is less than 50,000. --
Enos733 (
talk) 18:40, 18 December 2017 (UTC)reply
GNG mentions neither national nor international coverage. GNG does not mention population sizes. What was your analysis of the
WP:ATD?
Unscintillating (
talk) 16:39, 21 December 2017 (UTC)reply
Delete. Local mayors do not qualify for
WP:POLITICIAN absent significant non-local coverage, which is not in evidence here.
Frickeg (
talk) 11:21, 20 December 2017 (UTC)reply
Mayors are inherently part of a larger topic in the encyclopedia, so that for mayors, it is safe to say that
WP:DEL8 never overcomes
WP:ATD. And why include only non-local coverage?
Unscintillating (
talk) 16:39, 21 December 2017 (UTC)reply
Merge to
History of Burnside. I searched on Google news and Google web using the search term ["David Parkin"]. What I see is a long-running story in which this topic ran for office to combat what he considered to be
factional fighting and succeeded. Although part of the story ended with a court case in 2011, the story continues to attract news in the Fall of 2017.
Unscintillating (
talk) 16:39, 21 December 2017 (UTC)reply
Perhaps, move some of that stuff from city of burnside and add about him.
Galobtter (
pingó mió) 04:50, 25 December 2017 (UTC)reply
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Relisting comment: What do those supporting deletion think about merging, and to where?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,
ansh666 07:12, 26 December 2017 (UTC)reply
Can add a sentence or two to this paragraph An inquiry was launched in 2009 by then state Local Government Minister
Gail Gago into allegations of "harassment, bullying and misconduct" by then members of the City Council. After about $200,000 of expenditure by the council and $1.3 million by the state government, legal action by former councilors prevented the release of the report. A Supreme Court ruling on 27 May 2011, found that the report could be partially released, after material related to parts of the terms of reference deemed inappropriate was redacted. from the main article.
Galobtter (
pingó mió) 07:17, 26 December 2017 (UTC)reply
Delete - Close but not up to to my own personal benchmark for autokeeping elected mayors, that being a city of 50,000 people.
Carrite (
talk) 14:17, 1 January 2018 (UTC)reply
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Relisting comment: Delete or merge?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Sandstein 10:41, 2 January 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete -- a directory-like listing on a nn politician. Does not meet
WP:NPOL and significant RS coverage not found. The city article would not benefit from inclusion of this content, so I don't see a reason for a merge or redirect.
K.e.coffman (
talk) 03:09, 7 January 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete - lack of coverage fails
WP:POLITICIAN. I also don't see any reason to merge unless there was a list of mayors in the
City of Burnside#Politics section, which there is not. BTW - he ran unopposed, which for such a small city only lessens the notability of being mayor.
TimTempleton(talk)(cont) 20:28, 9 January 2018 (UTC)reply
Switching to editor mode to help resolve this: Delete. This meagre content about an obscure local political dispute is not worth merging. Nobody argues that notability for keeping exists. Sandstein 20:51, 9 January 2018 (UTC)reply
To clarify more I don't really care either way since it's just two sentences. If someone creates a list of mayors it should probably be targeted there.
Galobtter (
pingó mió) 04:36, 10 January 2018 (UTC)reply
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