Talk:Mayor for life

Disambiguation page?
This page does much more than disambiguate. It is more like a wiki dictionary entry in that it introduces a term and defines it, primarily by example. Normally a disambiguation pages does not harboring unique content not available elsewhere. The page makes a claim, that specific living persons belong to a class, and so has WP:BLP concerns. The page describes the "Mayor for life" as a "tongue-in-cheek" term, and that may be partially true, but beyond that, it is also derisive in connotation in that it implies that the living person holds or held office merely due to the lack of his or her demise, or else retains office by means other than the wholly verifiable action of electorates, and so has WP:RNEUTRAL concerns. This page claims that the subject term of this article "has been popularly applied" to a category of living persons, but offers no references to verify that claim, and so has WP:NOR concerns. Nor do the target biographies aid reader understanding the reason for the disambiguation link; you might hope that each of the targets include a clause of the form "sometimes refered to as Mayor for life " as described in WP:R or WP:MOSBOLDSYN. This page offers no explanation of why it is important WP:NN. "Mayor for life" is not a plausible typo for any of the listed persons, and it is a non-neutral misnomer for all of those persons, see WP:CSD R3.

Minimally, the disambiguation tag should be removed from this page. A category or list might be a better representation of this idea than a disambiguation page, but I would not recommend either. This page is so problematic and its contribution to the encyclopedia so minimal that page deletion is be the best course. — Preceding unsigned comment added by HughD (talk • contribs) 16:23, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Valid enough criticisms, though I've taken the opposite approach and structured this more as a proper disambiguation page. --BDD (talk) 20:44, 22 February 2018 (UTC)