Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ian Stubbs

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The result was delete‎. Daniel (talk) 16:33, 11 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Ian Stubbs

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Doesn't meet our notability guideline for politicians as a mayor of a local government area (equivalent to a county in the US) and hasn't received much coverage outside of his local area. In other words, a run-of-the-mill local politician. The first he's attributed with isn't even very significant; he was the first person to become mayor when the Shire of Busselton (established from a merger in 1951) was renamed to the City of Busselton. The Medal of the Order of Australia doesn't assert notability either; all sorts of people get those ... see 2023 Australia Day Honours for a sample. Note that I live in Busselton and have done a lot of work on articles about the local area, but I would never have thought to write an article about this guy. Also see my upcoming nomination at Anne Ryan (Australian politician), which is similar and was written by the same creator. Graham87 (talk) 15:48, 4 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Politicians and Australia. Skynxnex (talk) 16:50, 4 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom. Also noting that 3 of the 4 articles are from the same (local) newspaper. Cabrils (talk) 01:58, 5 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete fails WP:NPOL. Of the citations in the article 5 of them are local newspapers/websites and the last one is a primary source from the City of Busselton Council. Conducting online searches I found [1], [2] and [3], [4] in which Stubbs is only mentioned in passing and by my assessment a shark attack is more notable than he is. The rest of what I found was local coverage. Council mayors are rarely going to be notable as a consequence of doing council mayor things alone. TarnishedPath^talk 10:11, 5 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Fails WP:NPOL. Almost all coverage is very local. LibStar (talk) 23:05, 7 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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