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The result was delete.
Stifle (
talk) 18:53, 3 August 2013 (UTC)reply
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
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Crisco 1492 (
talk) 02:03, 21 July 2013 (UTC)reply
Comment - did the nominator abide by
WP:BEFORE, which is policy. While the article does not demonstrate notability, we judge the topic and not the article. As it is, apparently this guy was the mayor of a city that now has a population of 200k, and usually with cities that large, in the US, multiple runs for mayor during the internet age, means there is likely the sources out there to satisfy the GNG. All you have to do is look, and have to means mandatory.
Aboutmovies (
talk) 06:15, 24 July 2013 (UTC)reply
In reply: I actually did look and found only trivial local coverage. Did you find anything to satisfy GNG? --
MelanieN (
talk) 19:09, 24 July 2013 (UTC)reply
Using the link above for Google News shows 10 pages of coverage, and only looking at the first page shows 5 articles in which his name is in the headline. I'm not sure why local matters, but the main paper in the search results is the
The San Bernardino Sun, which is the main paper for the county of a the same name, which has 2 million people, and also is a major paper in Riverside County, another county with 2 million people. As in not some small-town paper. Most articles are behind paywalls, but based on the blurbs available on Gnews and the sheer volume, I'd say he passes the GNG.
Aboutmovies (
talk) 07:42, 29 July 2013 (UTC)reply
CommentWP:POLITICIAN refers to "international, national or sub-national (statewide/provincewide) office", so being a mayor of a city with 200k population is not, in itself, enough. It's up to whether he meets
WP:GNG or not.
Bondegezou (
talk) 12:19, 2 August 2013 (UTC)reply
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