Talk:2019 South Bend mayoral election

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Notability concerns
Hi SecretName101, I've been mulling over the 2023 Carmel mayoral election deletion discussion and I think the results from it are extremely relevant for this article as well. It was established in that deletion discussion that local, routine election coverage for mayoral elections does not meet EVENTCRIT and that there must be national coverage highlighting the impact of the race (because local, routine coverage does not meet the standards for inclusion here). I think most of the South Bend mayoral articles that exist meet this criterion because of widespread coverage of Buttigieg's candidacy, but I think that this one is basically limited to Indiana sources and doesn't have a wider impact (I think as an ATD it could easily be redirected to Mayoral elections in South Bend, Indiana).

This, however, is a GA and I think it'd be super unseemly to just nominate it out of the blue. Before I throw it to AfD, is there coverage that would meet the precedent that we've set in that AfD (showing national coverage or impact outside of regular coverage)? Nomader ( talk ) 16:54, 26 April 2023 (UTC)


 * @Nomader I think the notability of this arises from Buttigieg establishing/extending his legacy by endorsing a handpicked successor who was successful. It illustrates the city’s dealing with whether to continue the Buttigieg path or diverge. SecretName101 (talk) 17:26, 26 April 2023 (UTC)
 * And there was national and even international coverage about how Buttigieg extended his political capital on the election and his hand-pick successor was elected. I will compile a short list once I am in in front of a laptop SecretName101 (talk) 17:33, 26 April 2023 (UTC)
 * @Nomader
 * In-depth Wall Street Journal article
 * In-depth Bloomberg article
 * Vox article
 * Fox News article
 * Associated Press story that was was run in newspapers in San Diego, Toronto, Salt Lake City, Vancouver, D.C., Ottawa and many other cities. Also picked up by Yahoo!
 * Brief Axios piece that provided a summary of the election
 * New York Times article on Mueller's inauguration
 * Also received coverage across broader Indiana media, such as this story by KPC Media Group SecretName101 (talk) 22:28, 26 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Yep, clearly enough coverage and I'm glad that I brought this up here! Would have been a disugsting WP:BEFORE violation. Thanks for all that you've done for both this article and other election pieces, and sorry to make you dreg all this up -- you had me at the WSJ example, honestly (but the others are extremely helpful too). Nomader  ( talk ) 04:48, 27 April 2023 (UTC)
 * @Nomader Not a problem at all. SecretName101 (talk) 21:01, 27 April 2023 (UTC)