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The result was delete. Jo-Jo Eumerus ( talk, contributions) 18:54, 27 September 2019 (UTC) reply

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WP:BLP of a person notable primarily as mayor of a city that is not large enough to hand its mayors an automatic inclusion freebie in the absence of much better sourcing than this. There are also WP:PERP overtones here, because this basically elides any substantive content about his mayoralty and instead concentrates entirely on corruption allegations. And of the five footnotes here, one is a primary source table of election results that is not support for notability at all, one is a user-generated discussion forum reposting the primary source text of a court ruling that isn't really about Byrd at all but just mentions his name a single time by way of background context, and two are just glancing namechecks of his existence in newspaper articles about other things -- and the one source here that is actually about Byrd in any non-trivial way is not enough to get him over WP:GNG all by itself as the only substantive source in play. A mayor's article has to be a lot more substantial and a lot better sourced than this to get him over WP:NPOL #2. Bearcat ( talk) 14:56, 20 September 2019 (UTC) reply

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Bearcat ( talk) 14:56, 20 September 2019 (UTC) reply

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of California-related deletion discussions. Bearcat ( talk) 14:56, 20 September 2019 (UTC) reply

• Delete, fails WP:POLITICIAN. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 01:45, 21 September 2019 (UTC) reply
• Delete fails notability guidelines for politicians. John Pack Lambert ( talk) 06:40, 22 September 2019 (UTC) reply

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