Talk:Matthew T. Ryan

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I'm continuing to work on Matt Ryan's page, so don't judge it for deletion just yet. He's the mayor of a major upstate city during which several major events have occurred.
 * You're free to have your say at Articles for deletion/Matthew T. Ryan. ccwaters (talk) 22:08, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
 * I'd like to get a broader consensus on his notability. Please discuss therein. Bearian (talk) 17:35, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

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User:Mayormatt51 has made substantial changes to this article, and appears to have a conflict of interest based on his user name. The subject of the article, Matt Byan was a mayor. Meters (talk) 22:15, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

-IT was clearly the subject of this entry that wrote it himself. MayorMat51 is his title, first name, and birth year. The article is EXTREMELY biased in favor of him, leaving out anything negative, like the 60% increase in violent crime in Binghamton during his tenure, among many others. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lakawak (talk • contribs) 06:58, 21 February 2015 (UTC)

clearly biased entry
This was clearly written by Matt Ryan himself, if not a close family member. IT is spewing the THOROUGHLY refuted BS that he always did, and ignoring things like the 60% increase in violent crime under his watch and the extreme increase in poverty. (Much higher than the national average due to the recession.)

Quite frankly, the former mayor of a small, failing city that he helped put the final nail in the coffin for doesn't deserve a Wikipedia entry at all. The only media mentions he has gotten outside of his own city were when he tried to give Binghamton city water to residents of Pennsylvania cities who supposedly were "victims" of fracking, and those residents told him to go to hell. Other than that, he has not made ANY news outside of Binghamton. And again...he wrote this himself, meaning there is clear bias to the article. All the arguments AGAINST deleting this are mere speculation. One says "Surely a mayor of a city of 50K population has had mentions in the media." No actual sources to back that up...just a (wrong) guess. Since I can't answer these incorrect guesses on the Delete discussion page anymore, it should be noted here.

To summarize..the mayor of a small dying down wrote most of his own biography, leaving out every negative aspect which are many (The man routinely got his vetoes overridden even when the city council was made up ENTIRELY of fellow Democrats) and he is not even a significant enough political figure to include in the first place. No OTHER Binghamton mayor has a Wikipedia page. Even ones that were mayor when the city was much bigger and much more prosperous. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.255.149.63 (talk) 06:30, 21 February 2015 (UTC)

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