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The result was delete. 78.26 _{( spin me / revolutions)} 22:04, 26 June 2019 (UTC) reply

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Local politician who fails WP:NPOL. ...William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 10:21, 19 June 2019 (UTC) reply

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. ...William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 10:21, 19 June 2019 (UTC) reply

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of New York-related deletion discussions. ...William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 10:21, 19 June 2019 (UTC) reply

• delete Where are the references? — Preceding unsigned comment added by MaskedSinger ( talk • contribs) 16:37, 19 June 2019 (UTC) reply

• Comment: I would legitimately like to see where Upd8 sourced this information from, as the article has the appearance of being well-researched. I'm seeing a lot of articles mentioning or about him in The Post-Star, but that only counts as one source toward WP:BASIC, and I have no idea what the depth of coverage in Ancestors of Our Grandchildren and Their Cousins is like. In its current state – despite its clean prose – the article is both largely uncited and is about a subject of dubious notability. Obviously doesn't meet WP:NPOL per nom, but I think it's plausible it could eke out WP:BASIC, and thus I think it should either be put into the draft space or made into a WP:HUD. Note: Apparently there was another politician named J. Ward Russell in the mid-50s who is mentioned in Hawaiian newspapers as being a Republican. TheTechnician27 (Talk page) 06:28, 20 June 2019 (UTC) reply
• Delete. Glens Falls NY is not large enough to hand its mayors an automatic pass of WP:NPOL #2 just because they existed — smalltown mayors can sometimes still clear the bar if they can be reliably sourced well enough to be considered special cases of significantly greater notability than most other smalltown mayors, but are not all automatically accepted as notable. But there's an incredible gap here between the depth of content and the shallowness of the referencing actually being used to support it, suggesting the possibility of uncitable original research. Even the one local newspaper article doesn't provide complete citation details, but just goes "name of newspaper, month, year" without including the title of the article or the specific day on which it was published, which thus makes it unrecoverable — and the existence of one local newspaper article isn't an automatic notability guarantee for a smalltown mayor anyway, because every smalltown mayor can always show one local newspaper article. The notability test he would have to pass is not just getting his name into the local newspaper, it would be getting coverage that expanded significantly beyond just Glens Falls itself — but the only "expanded" source present here is genealogical, not notability-making political journalism. Bearcat ( talk) 14:18, 21 June 2019 (UTC) reply
• Delete Per Bearcat. Fails WP:NPOL and was just a local mayor. Newshunter12 ( talk) 08:21, 26 June 2019 (UTC) reply

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