Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John William Richardson

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The result was delete. Daniel (talk) 08:31, 4 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Biography of a person notable primarily as mayor of a smallish city, not properly referenced as passing WP:NPOL #2. Mayors are not handed an automatic notability freebie just because they're minimally verifiable as having existed -- the notability test for a mayor requires the ability to write a substantive article about his political significance: specific things he did, specific effects he had on the development of the city, and on and so forth. But this features essentially none of that, and with the only sources being a blurb's worth of information in a local history book and an undergraduate history essay by a student at the local university, it doesn't cite nearly enough coverage to deem him as passing WP:GNG in lieu of having to satisfy the notability criteria for mayors. Bearcat (talk) 20:04, 1 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 20:04, 1 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Ontario-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 20:04, 1 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete not every mayor of places that currently have over 50,000 people are notable, and that is the only threshold that would make Richardson notable.John Pack Lambert (talk) 19:37, 3 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep - mayor of a regionally important city. Bearian (talk) 21:44, 3 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Just calling a city "regionally important" is not a notability freebie that exempts a mayor from having to get over WP:NPOL #2 on his sourceability, or from the article actually having to contain any substance about his political impact. Bearcat (talk) 15:07, 5 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete Being mayor seems to be the basis for a claim of notability but being the mayor of a county town is not sufficient. Equivalents to North Bay would be Tunbridge Wells in the UK, Agrigento in Italy. or Vryburg in South Africa. Mccapra (talk) 07:10, 25 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete doesn't pass WP:GNG with the sources available, and doesn't pass any relevant SNG. SportingFlyer T·C 13:12, 2 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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