Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John R. Johnston

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was Redirect to Mayor of Hoboken, New Jersey. The arguments here (as opposed to simple votes) are for deletion (nom and Natg 19), redirect, and keep/merge. There is also one opinion in favour of keeping. None of the arguments for deletion deal with the possibility of redirecting to an article where the subject is already covered. Given that the majority of the content is already at the article on the mayor role, a redirect seems a reasonable outcome - should there be anything considered worth merging it's there in the article history. Michig (talk) 07:35, 28 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

John R. Johnston

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His highest office was serving as mayor of Hoboken, New Jersey. This is not a position of either enough importance or a city of enough size to justify inclusion merely for that fact. John Pack Lambert (talk) 18:32, 13 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of New Jersey-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 22:13, 13 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 22:13, 13 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Keep and expand --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 01:01, 14 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Mayor of a city of 50,000 people. Just not notable enough. -- Necrothesp (talk) 15:32, 17 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Natg 19 (talk) 00:52, 21 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to Mayor of Hoboken, New Jersey. Minor local politician with no obvious notability. Lankiveil ^{(speak to me)} 01:58, 21 February 2015 (UTC).[reply]
Keep The nomination's argument is more WP:NOTBIGENOUGH but "Notability isn't determined by something's quantity of members, but rather by the quality of the subject's verifiable, reliable sources." We have a guy currently at RfA who has been working for years on a place with a pop of just over 300 and most everyone seems to think that's wonderful. In all these cases, there's an obvious alternative to deletion — merger to the mayor's locality. Please see WP:BEFORE. Andrew D. (talk) 09:41, 21 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.