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The result was delete. It would help if those claiming significant coverage would detail how this is met. Consensus is against inherent notability for a mayor of a town of this size. 78.26 ( spin me / revolutions) 01:14, 3 March 2019 (UTC)
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Mayor a small town in Israel, searches did not turn up enough to show he meets WP:GNG, and doesn't appear to meet WP:NPOL. Onel5969 TT me 16:36, 23 February 2019 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Israel-related deletion discussions. Onel5969 TT me 16:36, 23 February 2019 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Onel5969 TT me 16:37, 23 February 2019 (UTC)
- Keep. Meets the WP:GNG per abundance of WP:SIGCOV. Mayor of the City of Safed. gidonb ( talk) 01:35, 24 February 2019 (UTC)
- Keep. There are sources in English, but there are a whole bunch of sources in Hebrew - "שוקי אוחנה". Safed is a regionally important city with quite a bit of historic and religious significance, and this is a three time mayor. Icewhiz ( talk) 09:48, 24 February 2019 (UTC)
Keep. Safed is not a small town but a major city. I think all mayors of major cities have a prima-facie case for notability.Zero talk 10:07, 24 February 2019 (UTC)
- With a population of 35,276 Safed may be a little more than a small town, but to call it a major city is more than a bit of a stretch. Phil Bridger ( talk) 11:54, 24 February 2019 (UTC)
- Quite so. Changing vote to delete.
Zero
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13:41, 24 February 2019 (UTC)
- Not a major city population wise (though regionally it is important historically, religiously, administratively, and has one of the few hospitals in the region) - but it is a recognized city. The more important thing is sourcing - and there's quite a bit of sources on "שוקי אוחנה" in Hebrew.
Icewhiz (
talk)
13:54, 24 February 2019 (UTC)
- I'm not sure whether the town/city distinction is helpful here. Is such a distinction made officially in Israel? I'm more familar with the US, where, in most states, any incorporated community is called a city, and with the UK, where the designation as a city is a rarely-bestowed honour granted to a settlement, without giving it any practical privileges. Phil Bridger ( talk) 14:26, 24 February 2019 (UTC)
- Not a major city population wise (though regionally it is important historically, religiously, administratively, and has one of the few hospitals in the region) - but it is a recognized city. The more important thing is sourcing - and there's quite a bit of sources on "שוקי אוחנה" in Hebrew.
Icewhiz (
talk)
13:54, 24 February 2019 (UTC)
- Quite so. Changing vote to delete.
Zero
talk
13:41, 24 February 2019 (UTC)
- Delete Safed is indeed a small town (a major city would be somewhere like
Ashdod or
Beersheba which have populations of over 200,000; Safed is ranked around 50th in population terms in Israel). Not sure whether
Zero0000 is confusing it with somewhere else.
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- You are right; I'm not thinking straight. Zero talk 13:38, 24 February 2019 (UTC)
- Keep. Safed Might Be A small City But it is Growing Rapidly. New Neighborhoods are being built to expand the City Such as Mizpe Hayamim
Other neighborhood are being enlarged. Safed may be a small city But it is very important both historically and in regard to Tourism, Safed Hosts more than a million Tourists a Year.Safed Is still Growing and By deleting this Page You are Limiting It's potential to Grow, therefore the Mayor of Safed Should Have a Page In Wikipedia for Afterall A Mayor represents his City. talk David Gulyaev Hakohen ( talk) 17:32, 24 February 2019 (UTC)
- Delete nothing less than 50,000 is going to be a town that gives the mayor default notability, and we need broad sourcing, sourcing itself can be found on virtually all local politicians. John Pack Lambert ( talk) 00:57, 25 February 2019 (UTC)
- Delete Being the mayor of a municipality of 35,000 isn't enough to pass WP:NPOL. Additionally, there isn't enough sustained or significant coverage to establish WP:GNG. Best, GPL93 ( talk) 15:46, 25 February 2019 (UTC)
- Delete. Safed is not large enough to guarantee its mayors an automatic WP:NPOL pass just for existing, but this isn't referenced anywhere near well enough to actually get him over the bar: it's referenced to just one Q&A interview in which he's speaking about himself, and a glancing namecheck of his existence in an overview of all the municipal election results across the entire country. This is not an "abundance" of sources for the purposes of making a mayor notable enough for inclusion in Wikipedia, it's the bare minimum routine coverage that every mayor of anywhere could always show. No prejudice against recreation in the future if somebody can reference him much better than this, but this is not even close to enough. Bearcat ( talk) 23:54, 25 February 2019 (UTC)
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