Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Steve Callaway

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 soft delete‎. Based on minimal participation, this uncontroversial nomination is treated as an expired PROD (a.k.a. "soft deletion"). Editors can request the article's undeletion. Star Mississippi 20:19, 16 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Steve Callaway

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Non-notable mayor of a suburban town. A BEFORE search brings up only local coverage, and we traditionally do not keep articles on local politicians just because they have received coverage in the local paper per WP:NOT - otherwise every mayor for every town would have an article. SportingFlyer T·C 20:29, 9 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Politicians and Oregon. SportingFlyer T·C 20:29, 9 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. Hillsboro seems to be large enough that a substantive and well-sourced article about a mayor would likely be keepable, but is in no sense large enough that its mayors would get any "inherent" notability freebies in the absence of any real substance or sourcing — the notability bar for a mayor is not "he exists", but requires the ability to write and source real, informative content about the political significance of his mayoralty: specific things he did, specific projects he spearheaded, specific effects his mayoralty had on the development of the city, and on and so forth. But there's nothing like that here, and the referencing is parked on one primary source self-published by the city government, which isn't support for notability at all, and one single news article verifying his initial election to the mayoralty, which isn't enough all by itself to claim that he would pass WP:GNG. Bearcat (talk) 20:14, 12 July 2023 (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.