Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/O. H. Adsit

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 keep. Overall consensus is for article retention. Discussion regarding a potential merge, redirect, etc. can continue on the article's talk page if desired. NORTH AMERICA¹⁰⁰⁰ 16:37, 28 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

O. H. Adsit

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Neither being mayor of Juneau nor being party to a case heard by the US supreme court are enough to establish notability. John Pack Lambert (talk) 20:55, 13 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete Can't find substantial sourcing. Also, in 1910, Juneau had a population of 1,600,[1] so he was not the mayor of a significant place. Calliopejen1 (talk) 00:46, 14 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- It did, however, have bunting [2] All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 01:21, 14 February 2015 (UTC).
Keep or redirect to Juneau, Alaska. There is never a reason to delete a mayor of city when they can be redirected to the main article. This could have been handled on the talk page. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 02:17, 14 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Keep as notable local politician. There is nothing in the rules about size of cities and mayors. The article, however, needs work. The material about the court case needs clarification. Billy Hathorn (talk) 23:55, 14 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Keep or merge and redirect to Mayors of Jeneau or List of mayors of Jeneau. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 17:46, 15 February 2015 (UTC).
Delete There is not any substantive sourcing for the article. There is not a presumption of notability, per WP:POLOUTCOMES for mayors of small towns, and our usual cutoff for mayors is between 100,000 and 50,000 when the official is independently elected as mayor. Any information about the subjects role as in Malony v. Adsit should be added to the page about the case. --Enos733 (talk) 05:34, 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, — Coffee // have a cup // beans // 02:15, 21 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Keep The current content looks ok and there seems to be more out there in sources such as Biographies of Alaska-Yukon Pioneers, 1850-1950. The worst case would be merger into List of mayors of Juneau, Alaska and so, per WP:ATD, there's no reason to delete. Andrew D. (talk) 09:23, 21 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Notable local politician. Ism schism (talk) 15:32, 25 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Keep From what I can gather from snippets, some additional coverage is available in newspaper archives of the Daily Record Miner, which was based in Juneau during Adsit's mayorality. (See GeneologyBank, or the library of Juneau has microfilm archives.) I'm less optimistic about whether copies/records of the Juneau Journal from 1902 remain, but that's not impossible either. I beleive the presence of two newspapers based in Juneau at the time are indicative of a Juneau being a regional center whose in-town population size doesn't represent its importance (or available coverage) well--it became Alaska's capital only four years later. --j⚛e decker ^talk 14:42, 28 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.