Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bakersfield City Clerk


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was   delete. Lankiveil (speak to me) 11:17, 15 June 2014 (UTC)

Bakersfield City Clerk

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The office of city clerk is not an inherently notable position and there are no independent sources to demonstrate that it meets WP:GNG. Hirolovesswords (talk) 19:16, 27 May 2014 (UTC)


 * Keep - the city clerk of any particular city is responsible for the official documents of the municipality. One can reasonably expect that the city clerk's name appears on thousands of historical documents. In the course of doing historical research, one may find that the identity of the city clerk is key to finding, dating and making other connections with the information being researched. In this particular case, Bakersfield is a county seat, so we can reasonably multiply this effect significantly. Greg Bard (talk) 19:36, 27 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of California-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 19:37, 27 May 2014 (UTC)


 * Delete per my comments at Articles for deletion/Bakersfield City Attorney. There is a Category:City and town clerks, but they are for large cities - Boston, London, Chicago, etc. - or have been otherwise notable in their own right. Ongoing consensus has been to keep mayors of medium-to-large-cities, but I don't think anyone has ever argued that city clerks or their offices are inherently notable. Bearian (talk) 20:05, 27 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Randykitty (talk) 17:00, 5 June 2014 (UTC)




 * Delete The office of city clerk is not in itself notable, even in much larger cities, and there is no independent coverage to suggest that this particular office is notable. --MelanieN (talk) 19:33, 5 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete - City clerk as a general topic is notable, the specific position for one mid-sized California town is not. This seems to be part of an ill-considered grouplet of Bakersfield bureaucratic trivia articles. Carrite (talk) 21:03, 5 June 2014 (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.