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The result was delete. ♠ PMC♠ (talk) 06:52, 3 September 2017 (UTC) reply

Mike Nelson (North Carolina politician)

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WP:BLP of a person notable only as a former mayor, in a town not large enough to hand its mayors an automatic presumption of notability per WP:NPOL. The strongest potential "more notable than the norm" claim here is that he was the first openly gay mayor in his state -- but being the first member of an underrepresented minority to hold an otherwise non-notable political office is not a Wikipedia inclusion criterion in and of itself, and the article isn't showing the depth of reliable source coverage it would take to get him over the "who have received significant press coverage" part of our criteria for local officeholders: the only two sources here are one deadlinked news article in one newspaper, and one deadlinked article on an advocacy organization's blog which may have mentioned his name but appears from its headline to not have been about him per se. Simply put, the sourcing would have to be quite a lot better than this to qualify him for an article. Bearcat ( talk) 17:35, 11 August 2017 (UTC) reply

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Bearcat ( talk) 17:35, 11 August 2017 (UTC) reply

Note: This debate has been included in the list of North Carolina-related deletion discussions. Bearcat ( talk) 17:35, 11 August 2017 (UTC) reply

• Delete. Mayors of cities of this size (20,000 people) are not usually considered to be inherently notable. -- Necrothesp ( talk) 15:20, 15 August 2017 (UTC) reply

• Comment - all told, this is a perfect example of a truly borderline case. Bearian ( talk) 16:29, 22 August 2017 (UTC) reply

• Delete per Bearcat. The sourcing does not appear to be sufficient for a mayor of a small city. -- Enos733 ( talk) 18:23, 28 August 2017 (UTC) reply

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