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The result was delete. I'm not officially calling this a merge, but If somebody wants to include some information from this article in Mayor of Faversham, that would certainly fall under normal editorial discretion. If you need reference to the deleted text, any admin will be able to get you a copy in your user space. -- RoySmith (talk) 13:46, 6 May 2014 (UTC) reply

Harry Knowles (politician) (  | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – ( View log · Stats)

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I've searched the major UK newspapers for more sources but can't find coverage to support any claim to notability other than what is presented in the article, ie Mayor of Faversham, Freedom of Faversham, Alderman of Faversham. On the face of it this seems to fail WP:GNG due to the coverage being essentially either local or a passing mention. Seems to fail WP:NPOL because it is a position of Mayor of a relatively small town (compared with say Mayor of London/Liverpool/Manchester which would be clearly notable). The absence of national coverage I think underlines this. Other examples of articles on Mayors of Kent towns seem to exist where there was an additional claim to notability such as being an MP of the national parliament, or one case of a famous murderee who was written about for that reason - but in this case I can't see what the claim could be based on. _nonsense ferret 18:51, 27 April 2014 (UTC) reply

• Delete - only briefly a mayor for a small town. No evidence he's done anything remarkable or noteworthy. Fails WP:GNG and WP:POLITICIAN. Sionk ( talk) 21:20, 27 April 2014 (UTC) reply

Note: This debate has been included in the list of England-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k ( talk) 13:29, 28 April 2014 (UTC) reply

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k ( talk) 13:29, 28 April 2014 (UTC) reply

• Delete per lack of substantial coverage in reliable independent sources. Candleabracadabra ( talk) 21:03, 28 April 2014 (UTC) reply
• Delete - we normally delete the bios of mayors of small cities/boroughs, absent national attention, per WP:POLOUTCOMES. Bearian ( talk) 21:59, 30 April 2014 (UTC) reply
• Merge to Mayor of Faversham The mayor of Faversham stub could incorporate some of the basic info, the sources and the picture. Boleyn ( talk) 15:02, 4 May 2014 (UTC) reply

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, The Bushranger _{One ping only} 03:33, 6 May 2014 (UTC) reply

Note: Relisted to see if there's any additional support for a merge as an alternative for deletion, since the merge !vote came late to the party.

• Merge to Mayor of Faversham. NorthAmerica ¹⁰⁰⁰ 06:18, 6 May 2014 (UTC) reply

I'm a bit puzzled by this vote. In the absence of any significant content about the position itself outside a list of people who have done that job, isn't Mayor of Faversham effectively a stand alone list which should follow WP:NLIST meaning that we apply WP:BASIC to determine whether we should include a given mayor in the list? If we agree that Knowles is not sufficiently notable for a standalone article, thus failing WP:BASIC, then copying the content to that list seems not to be based on the guidelines. -- _nonsense ferret 11:45, 6 May 2014 (UTC) reply

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