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Biography of a mayor, referenced only to a general community history book with no evidence of
reliable source coverage about him. This is simply not enough sourcing to get him over the "who have received significant press coverage" part of our
WP:NPOL criteria for local officeholders, and none of the article's content suggests any substantive reason why we could extend him a presumption of notability in the absence of better sourceability than this.
Bearcat (
talk) 17:48, 11 June 2017 (UTC)reply
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,
Ad Orientem (
talk) 00:23, 19 June 2017 (UTC)reply
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, —MRD2014 02:42, 27 June 2017 (UTC)reply
Delete Subject settled in
Whitevale, Ontario and the town was named after him. The town is now a hamlet (population appx. 250) wholly within the city limits of
Pickering, Ontario. All of the existing sourcing on the subject is from one source - Wood, W.R. (1911). Past Years in Pickering. The community consensus about the notability of mayors includes both an evaluation of the city's population and type of government. In this case, the size of the jurisdiction is much smaller than what is accepted for the presumption of notability. Failing
WP:Politician, the standard next is
WP:GNG. In this case, the sourcing does not appear to be sufficient at this time to keep an article about the subject. There may be more coverage in the Toronto newspapers archives about the subject, but until then, the article should be deleted. --
Enos733 (
talk) 01:04, 29 June 2017 (UTC)reply
Merge the portions of this stub relevant to the history of
Whitevale, Ontario into that short geo article.
Onel5969TT me 15:32, 4 July 2017 (UTC)reply
Merge and redirect to
Whitevale, Ontario per Onel5969's suggestion although I don't see much that's appropriate to salvage. --
Lockley (
talk) 22:21, 4 July 2017 (UTC)reply
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