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The result was delete. -- RoySmith (talk) 04:32, 23 January 2019 (UTC) reply

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Biography, not sourced well enough to clear the notability bar, of a person notable only as mayor of a small village which has long since been annexed as a city neighbourhood. This basically dispatches her work in politics (i.e. the stuff that's relevant to whether she's notable enough for an article or not) with simple statements that she held political roles, while saying literally nothing about any significant or noteworthy accomplishments in those roles, and instead concentrates much more strongly on purely biographical details that have no bearing on her notability either way -- and it's referenced to just two pieces of local media coverage: one obituary, and one article about her initial election as mayor. But that's not enough coverage to make a smalltown mayor special, because every mayor of anywhere can always show at least as much coverage as that. And being the first woman to hold an otherwise non-notable role is not a notability freebie that automatically makes her special, either -- if this had made her the first woman to get elected as a mayor anywhere in Canada, then that would mean something, but she was neither the first in Canada (see Barbara Hanley) nor even the first in Ontario (see Barbara Hanley again, and then take a side trip through Marjorie Hamilton and Charlotte Whitton before coming back here...and that's just who I know about), but merely (tied for) the first in her own county. That's not significant enough to make a woman mayor a special notability case on the basis of being a woman, but the sourcing here isn't strong enough to make her notable on the basis of being a mayor either. Bearcat ( talk) 19:02, 15 January 2019 (UTC) reply

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Bearcat ( talk) 19:12, 15 January 2019 (UTC) reply

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Ontario-related deletion discussions. Bearcat ( talk) 19:12, 15 January 2019 (UTC) reply

• Delete a non-notable community leader. John Pack Lambert ( talk) 02:27, 16 January 2019 (UTC) reply

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Women-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple ( talk) 07:22, 16 January 2019 (UTC) reply

• Delete - as per nom. Cwmhiraeth ( talk) 16:50, 16 January 2019 (UTC) reply
• Delete - per nom. -- Enos733 ( talk) 22:00, 16 January 2019 (UTC) reply
• Delete This mayor has not been given significant coverage in a reliable source. ― Susmuffin  ^Talk 02:32, 18 January 2019 (UTC) reply
• Keep - served as member of the executive council for Metro Toronto, which was a superset of the City of Toronto, had the same geographical boundaries as the later City of Toronto and controlled policing, planning and other functions for the total Toronto area. -- Big_iron ( talk) 02:47, 18 January 2019 (UTC) reply

Pre-megacity Metro Council isn't an automatic inclusion freebie in the absence of enough media coverage to get her over WP:NPOL #3 — the Metro-to-Megacity relationship doesn't work that way under our inclusion criteria. We don't care what the boundaries of the unit became 35 years after she left office, we care what the boundaries of the unit were while she was in office — so metro councillors in the 1960s don't get retroactively massaged into "global city" councillors just because metro got amalgamated into the city in 1998. She has to clear the notability standard for county councillors, which still requires a lot more media coverage about her than this shows even now, and does not turn into a "Toronto City Councillor" just because metro became city 25 years after she was already dead. Bearcat ( talk) 04:19, 20 January 2019 (UTC) reply

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