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The result was keep. ( non-admin closure) DavidLeighEllis ( talk) 00:53, 29 October 2015 (UTC) reply

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A mayor in a town in Oregon, individual appears to be non-notable per Wikipedia standards. Very little online that would prove notability. Other than being a mayor, no mentions whatsoever. If not deleted, suggest merge with Hillsboro, Oregon. -- WV ● ✉ ✓ 03:53, 8 October 2015 (UTC) reply

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. North America ¹⁰⁰⁰ 23:18, 8 October 2015 (UTC) reply

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Oregon-related deletion discussions. North America ¹⁰⁰⁰ 23:18, 8 October 2015 (UTC) reply

• Hillsboro has a population of 91K, so at least in theory Willey is a legitimate article topic. That said, the referencing here is was for the birds, resting exclusively on primary sources (PR profile on the city's website, a press release on the county's) with not one iota of reliable source coverage shown — and even a President of the United States would have to be blown up and rebuilt from scratch if their article was that poorly referenced. Accordingly, I'm willing to reverse myself if the article actually sees referencing improvement while this discussion is underway — but it's a delete if it still looks like this by closing time, albeit without prejudice against future recreation if somebody can do better. Update: the sourcing has now been significantly improved, so I'm officially flipping over to a keep. Bearcat ( talk) 18:17, 18 October 2015 (UTC) reply

• Keep - having written articles on the last three or so mayors of Hillsboro, the sources are out there, and all the sources now appear to be what is needed. Aboutmovies ( talk) 05:31, 25 October 2015 (UTC) reply
• Keep - It's pretty borderline with respect to the POLITICIAN high bar, the size of Hillsboro being on the shy side of 100,000 which seems like a good benchmark for elected mayors, but the sourcing is decent. Carrite ( talk) 20:56, 28 October 2015 (UTC) reply

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