Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2023 Mableton mayoral election (2nd nomination)


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The result was merge‎__EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__ to Mableton, Georgia. as a viable ATD. While this appears to be N/C based on head count, keep !votes are not based in policy Star   Mississippi  23:32, 9 February 2024 (UTC)

2023 Mableton mayoral election
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Local election for a small suburb. It has not been covered by any media outside of the Atlanta metropolitan area, failing WP:GEOSCOPE and WP:GNG. Previous discussion was closed because it was still linked from the Main Page.  Sounder Bruce  22:21, 26 January 2024 (UTC) Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗  plicit  23:49, 2 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Politics and Georgia (U.S. state).  Sounder  Bruce  22:21, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Keep By number of sources alone and prominence of the election (first in 110 years after re-incorporation), I think it certainly does merit an article mention, and I'm not liking the 'still gonna nom this the exact moment after it drops off the main page' rationale at all, because it's obvious if it gets main page mention that we found it very notable based on that alone.  Nate  • ( chatter ) 23:02, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
 * The DYK process does not always produce articles that survive tests of notability, especially since there's only a handful of eyes who might see it before it makes the Main Page. All of the sources about the election itself are from the Atlanta metropolitan area, not a single one from the rest of Georgia let alone the country (note that the Yahoo sources are all reposted from local newspapers).  Sounder Bruce  00:14, 27 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Keep per above. Also it is not really small, the new city is much bigger than the previous unincorporated area and has a population of between 40-80 thousand people (see talk page discussion). Comparing it to similar sized cities (see this essay about "other stuff exists" arguments), there is the 2022 Bellevue mayoral election (64,000 people), 2022 Pensacola mayoral election (54,000), 2021 Hoboken mayoral election (60,000), 2021 North Miami mayoral election (60,000), 2021 Burlington mayoral election (44,000), 2012 Cheyenne mayoral election (65,000), 2020 Wilmington mayoral election (70,000), 2017 Lancaster, Pennsylvania, mayoral election (58,000), etc. Sahaib (talk) 23:16, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
 * WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS is an argument to avoid. Many of those articles should also be nominated for deletion or merged into listicles, as they have zero outside sources and certainly none that would cover the election's lasting impact.  Sounder Bruce  00:14, 27 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Delete and strongly - hyper local election with no lasting impact and only 6,113 votes being cast - even the voters for this municipality didn't care! Surprised this made it to the main page, we probably need to figure out what went wrong there. Fails WP:NOTNEWS. SportingFlyer  T · C  23:37, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
 *  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Delete or Merge into Mableton, Georgia - Most of the content of the page is background information explaining that Mableton was incorporated in 1912, then disincorporated in 1916, the re-incorporated in 2022, with information on the campaign, election and opinions of the latter. The actual content related to the 2023 election is quite limited, and I don't see why it would not be folded into the Mableton article, which already has a section on Government. If there is continued interest in the mayoral election in the future, this could be split off into a thematic article such as Mableton, Georgia mayoral elections, but I don't think this topic alone meets WP:N. Shazback (talk) 05:20, 3 February 2024 (UTC)


 * 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.