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This article is about a non-notable local mayor who fails
WP:POLITICIAN, because he hasn't held a high enough office. Nor is he a "Major local political figures who have received significant press coverage. Especially since what little coverage there is on him in the article is extremely lackluster and doesn't seem to pass
WP:GNG. Also, there is no evidence he is a "major political figure." Apparently he lost a run for state assembly or maybe he would be, but being a mayor of a local smallish (mid-sized?) town doesn't cut it. So, this article doesn't pass
WP:POLITICIAN. "Just being an elected local official, or an unelected candidate for political office, does not guarantee notability
Adamant1 (
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13:38, 1 September 2020 (UTC)reply
Delete, unless somebody can actually improve the article. The notability test for mayors is not automatically passed just because his name shows up in the local media where it's expected to show up, or because it's possible to find technical verification of the election results, or even because it's possible to verify a few stray facts about his personal life — the notability test for a mayor is passed by the ability to write substantive content about the concrete significance of his mayoralty: specific things he did, specific city-building projects he championed, specific effects he had on the city's development, and on and so forth. But I'm really not seeing very much of that here — supporting local organizations doesn't make him special in and of itself as that's not unusual for a mayor to do, so the most substantive such claim here is an unreferenced assertion that he doubled the city's budget, which isn't enough all by itself if there's very little content about what that extra money was spent on. Basically, to make a mayor notable enough for inclusion, there has to be a lot more meat to his article than this.
Bearcat (
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17:09, 2 September 2020 (UTC)reply
Keep while onel5959 points out he does not appear to pass
WP:POLITICIAN, which requires "Politicians and judges who have held international, national, or (for countries with federal or similar systems of government) state/province–wide office, or have been members of legislative bodies at those levels", the guideline also states "although such people can still be notable if they meet the general notability guideline". Given the secondary coverage of him, this should be okay.
Sxologist (
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00:21, 5 September 2020 (UTC)reply
I'd hardly call Good Morning America an in-depth reliable secondary source. There's only a single source that mentions it also and he doesn't come up on the actual Good Morning America site anywhere. So, it's a questionable claim IMO. Even if it wasn't though, there's zero evidence Good Morning America covered him in an in-depth way and it would also be extremely laughable to say they are reliable for anything. --
Adamant1 (
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01:11, 7 September 2020 (UTC)reply
My claim is not that the substance of the GMA or La Monde articles would pull the subject over GNG, it is that there is reliably sourced information that the subject's mayoral victory was covered (or at least mentioned) in national and international press. This make the subject more notable than most. In fact, if you read
WP:POLOUTCOMES, it almost is if it was referring to this subject. --
Enos733 (
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15:47, 8 September 2020 (UTC)reply
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