Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Arder Carson


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The result was delete. RL0919 (talk) 04:37, 10 December 2019 (UTC)

Arder Carson

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WP:BLP of a person notable only as "Lord Mayor" of a city where that's a purely ceremonial position that rotates annually among the city councillors. This is not an automatic free pass over NPOL, but the article is "referenced" entirely to one primary source press release on the city's own website and one Q&A interview in the local media in which he's talking about himself in the first person, which is not even close to enough coverage to make him markedly more notable than the norm for a not inherently notable role. I'll grant that he sounds like a lovely man based on the interview, but being a nice guy isn't actually the notability test here. Bearcat (talk) 04:37, 3 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 04:37, 3 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Northern Ireland-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 04:37, 3 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete local municipal leaders are not automatically notable per WP:NPOL, and there's no evidence after conducting a thorough WP:BEFORE search that this guy is unusually notable for a local elected official. Michepman (talk) 04:50, 3 December 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete mayors do not get default notability.John Pack Lambert (talk) 14:50, 3 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete: we recently closed Articles for deletion/John Finucane (Sinn Féin politician) as delete and Carson's claim to notability is far weaker than Finucane's. Bondegezou (talk) 10:41, 4 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete. Lord mayor is a ceremonial position. Only executive mayors are inherently notable. -- Necrothesp (talk) 11:16, 4 December 2019 (UTC)


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