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The result was delete. TonyBallioni ( talk) 15:58, 30 June 2018 (UTC)
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A suburban mayor who fails WP:NPOL and WP:GNG. He's served as mayor for a long time - there's a freeway frontage road named after him, so there are a lot of hits, but there's not enough sources to flesh out the article. Many sources are run-of-the-mill or trivial, including his brief mention in the New York Times for term limits. In one source I found about the election, fewer than 2,000 people vote for this particular mayorship, which doesn't strike me as helping his notability cause at all: [1] SportingFlyer talk 07:35, 8 June 2018 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Gabe Iglesia ( talk) 13:54, 8 June 2018 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Texas-related deletion discussions. Gabe Iglesia ( talk) 13:54, 8 June 2018 (UTC)
- Keep Although Tate does not meet
wp:NPOL because he has not held statewide office or higher, I think he may pass the
wp:gng as I was able to find some substantial coverage in independent reliable sources -
[2]
[3]
[4]. He also was mentioned in
this NY Times piece about term limits in Texas, which while not "substantial" per se is probably more than just "brief". I also think that the fact that a major thoroughfare in Grapevine is named after him adds a little bit to his notability.
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03:20, 10 June 2018 (UTC)
- Comment He may be notable for serving a long time. Agree there's more there than your average small town mayor. Still, the article will need WP:TNT even if it's kept, and more sources added. SportingFlyer talk 23:52, 14 June 2018 (UTC)
I believe we should keep the article because it talk about the Mayor of grapevine who has been the mayor for over 40 years and has lived in grapevine all his life. And his contributions to the city of grapevine and to the state should not be over looked. Not also that he is talked about in the newspaper more than the mayors of Southlake, Colleyville combined.
here is one example of many articles that describe and talk about whillam D Tate achievements. https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170407005666/en/Texas-Gov.-Abbott-Welcomes-Kubota-Grapevine-Celebrates
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Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Yunshui 雲 水 09:01, 15 June 2018 (UTC)
- Delete. Grapevine TX is not large enough to hand all of its mayors an automatic free pass over WP:NPOL #2 just for existing, but this is sourced nowhere near well enough to actually get him over the bar. Bearcat ( talk) 19:13, 20 June 2018 (UTC)
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Sandstein 20:06, 22 June 2018 (UTC)
- Delete There are other sources found in Google News that briefly cite the subject of the article. However, it's not indicative of notability based on the rules on Wiki. ABY 124431132 ( talk) 00:57, 23 June 2018 (UTC)
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