Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John Stein (mayor)

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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) –Davey2010^Talk 23:32, 22 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Stein is a local politican, with most of the coverage being local. The rest of the coverage is not about him, but about the political career of Sarah Palin. Anything that needs to be said about him can be said in the article on Sarah Palin. John Pack Lambert (talk) 05:02, 14 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep and work on, or redirect you never have to delete a mayor article, a redirect is always preferred. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 05:43, 14 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep - Special national interest in this governmental position due to one previous occupant of the post. Elected official. Article is sourced out to provide verifiability and meets GNG. Carrite (talk) 12:51, 17 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
• Redirect to Wasilla, Alaska. Non-notable mayor of a tiny town, whose only claim to fame is the nasty things that were said about him by his notable opponent. (BTW she was his successor, not a "previous occupant of the post".) The article is mostly about her political attacks; it's almost a BLP violation as it stands. BTW it is not true that "you never have to delete a mayor article"; we do it all the time if they are not notable. --MelanieN (talk) 01:02, 20 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
• Clear Keep Notable with reliable sources to back it up. Thanks. Ism schism (talk) 04:12, 20 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete Just being a mayor of a city does not make a person notable, as WP:POLOUTCOMES notes. Much of Stein's notability seems to be because Sarah Palin ran against him for mayor. I don't see much coverage of him to meet WP:GNG. Natg 19 (talk) 00:13, 21 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Ism schism (talk) 02:24, 21 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep. Notable. There is a place for local politicians with adequate coverage. It says so in the rules. Billy Hathorn (talk) 02:42, 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) 09:40, 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.