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The result was keep. ( non-admin closure) – Davey2010 ^Talk 23:31, 22 February 2015 (UTC) reply

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The closest Ely comes to notablity is serving as mayor of South Norwalk, Connecticut. This is a defunct city, which in an of itself does not prevent notability, but it was not a city of enough significance to confer autormatic notability on the mayor. John Pack Lambert ( talk) 20:41, 13 February 2015 (UTC) reply

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Connecticut-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k ( talk) 22:53, 13 February 2015 (UTC) reply

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k ( talk) 22:53, 13 February 2015 (UTC) reply

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k ( talk) 22:53, 13 February 2015 (UTC) reply

• Keep or redirect to List of mayors of Norwalk, Connecticut (there's a section for South Norwalk). As the first mayor, there is more coverage about him than later ones. The most significant coverage going to meet WP:BASIC may be this entry in Illustrated Popular Biography of Connecticut (1891). 24.151.10.165 ( talk) 17:17, 14 February 2015 (UTC) reply

• Strong keep -- I took a lot of time and effort doing research to cover what I feel is my area of responsibility (i.e. the history of Norwalk, Connecticut). The city of Norwalk is of a sufficient size that its mayors would qualify as notable. The city of South Norwalk was merged with the city of Norwalk, and as such the history of that area *is* the history of the current city of Norwalk. Is it the intention of this proposer to also propose all the numerous others? That is a lot of time and effort wasted, and history lost for a fairly substantially sized city. I was a significant contributor for many years, but I really am very discouraged by what Wikipedia has become. Greg Bard 205.172.173.250 ( talk) 18:02, 14 February 2015 (UTC) reply
• Keep - Most records are in the Historicial Society, but Norwalk After Two Hundred & Fifty Years contains several mentions and confirms the terms and the role of President of the bank for decades. Local and state importance from over 120+ years ago will be resigned mostly to non-internet sources. ChrisGualtieri ( talk) 18:23, 14 February 2015 (UTC) reply
• Keep. Local politician with importance as mayor of a smaller city. Wikipedia rules say nothing about mayors or the population of their cities. Billy Hathorn ( talk) 01:38, 15 February 2015 (UTC) reply
• Delete. Mayor of a city that only has a population of 87,000 now (which is far from being big enough to make its mayor inherently notable), let alone when he was mayor. No sources beyond the basics. -- Necrothesp ( talk) 15:22, 17 February 2015 (UTC) reply

• Keep The nomination's argument is classic WP:NOTBIGENOUGH but "Notability isn't determined by something's quantity of members, but rather by the quality of the subject's verifiable, reliable sources." We have a guy currently at RfA who has been working for years on a place with a pop of just over 300 and most everyone seems to think that's wonderful. Andrew D. ( talk) 09:18, 21 February 2015 (UTC) reply

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