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The result was delete. Ad Orientem ( talk) 04:09, 11 September 2019 (UTC)
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WP:BLP of a politician notable only for serving at the county and school board levels of government. As always, these are not offices that automatically entitle a person to have a Wikipedia article -- the lowest level of office that confers guaranteed inclusion rights on all officeholders is the state legislature, while politicians at the local level of office are included only if they can be demonstrated as having received nationalized coverage that makes them special notability cases of much greater notability than the norm. But that's not what the references here are showing -- rather, this is heavily reference bombed to a pile of primary sources that aren't support for notability at all (e.g. routine verification of vote totals on the county government's own self-published website), glancing namechecks of her existence as a giver of soundbite in local media coverage of other things or people, and sources which don't even namecheck her existence at all, but are here solely to verify stray facts that are completely tangential to her notability as a person. Once all of those are discounted, there are fewer than 10 sources left which are actually about Navarro in any non-trivial way, which is not enough coverage to make a county councillor special. Bearcat ( talk) 21:15, 3 September 2019 (UTC)
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- Comment article needs work and better sourcing.-- evrik ( talk) 04:14, 4 September 2019 (UTC)
- Delete a non-notable county level politician. John Pack Lambert ( talk) 00:23, 4 September 2019 (UTC)
- Keep notable politician who has received a lot of news coverage. -- evrik ( talk) 03:20, 4 September 2019 (UTC)
- That's bringing up a lot of hits which mention her name in the process of being fundamentally about other things or people besides her, and is not bringing up a lot of hits about her. Also, one newspaper in a county councillor's own local media market is not the magic ticket to notability all by itself regardless of how often it's covered her: the notability test for a county councillor requires nationalizing coverage that expands well beyond just her own local media market.
Bearcat (
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20:41, 4 September 2019 (UTC)
- Many of the articles talk about things she is working on. Besides, it's the
Washington Post. --
evrik (
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21:23, 4 September 2019 (UTC)
- The Washington Post doesn't magically make county councillors within Metropolitan Washington more notable than everywhere else's county councillors just because the Washington Post happens to be the provider of the person's routinely expected local coverage. Even The New York Times doesn't do that for county councillors within the NYC metro — the councillor's coverage still has to expand beyond just their own local media market before they're plausibly notable, regardless of how prestigious their local newspaper may be. Bearcat ( talk) 15:23, 6 September 2019 (UTC)
- Many of the articles talk about things she is working on. Besides, it's the
Washington Post. --
evrik (
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21:23, 4 September 2019 (UTC)
- That's bringing up a lot of hits which mention her name in the process of being fundamentally about other things or people besides her, and is not bringing up a lot of hits about her. Also, one newspaper in a county councillor's own local media market is not the magic ticket to notability all by itself regardless of how often it's covered her: the notability test for a county councillor requires nationalizing coverage that expands well beyond just her own local media market.
Bearcat (
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20:41, 4 September 2019 (UTC)
- Keep. Sufficient news coverage to establish notability. Agree that article needs work and better sourcing. ~ Quacks Like a Duck ( talk)
- Delete A local politician who has not received any press coverage outside of the region she represents. Of the sources, her name only appears in the headline of approximately five of those, and they're all routine campaign coverage, or articles she authored herself, and many of the articles cited simply appear to be routine coverage of the council she sits on. SportingFlyer T· C 07:52, 5 September 2019 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. A ton of "sources", but none of them provide any WP:SIGCOV, as far as I can see, mostly routine electioneering news. Clarityfiend ( talk) 19:09, 6 September 2019 (UTC)
- Delete a non-notable county level politician and the sources not provide any WP:SIGCOV. -- SalmanZ ( talk) 22:15, 10 September 2019 (UTC)
- Delete As president of the Montgomery County Council she gets lots of passing mentions, all of it local, but I'm not seeing significant independent coverage about her (at least nothing that's atypical for thousands of local politicians). Her position does not meet WP:NPOL. Papaursa ( talk) 03:21, 11 September 2019 (UTC)
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