Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Barbara J. Fiala


 * 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   No consensus, defaults to keep. Stifle (talk) 10:59, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

Barbara J. Fiala

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local politician, fails WP:POLITICIAN, prod removed ccwaters (talk) 21:23, 23 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete. Although Binghamton is a fairly major city within the county headed by Ms. Fiala, it is not Nassau County, New York either, and the news coverage is next to nonexistent. --  Blanchardb - Me•MyEars•MyMouth - timed 21:55, 23 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep. Article just needs additional content from WP:RS.  If "members of the main citywide government or council of a major metropolitan city" (where "major" is left undefined) are notable under WP:POLITICIAN, then certainly the chief executive of countywide government ought to be as well. Furthermore, if the article for this county executive is deleted, then the completely unsourced articles on county executives J. Russell Sprague, A. Holly Patterson, Ralph G. Caso, Francis T. Purcell, and Thomas Gulotta (as pointed out by User:Blanchardb) should be put up for deletion as well.  -- DanielPenfield (talk) 22:45, 23 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep Lots of press coverage. Meets WP:POLITICIAN requirements that local government officials should have significant press coverage. The article could use some fixing up and expansion, but we don't delete for lack of that. RayAYang (talk) 03:00, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
 * A politician who has received "significant press coverage" has been written about, in depth, independently in multiple news feature articles, by journalists. Once you comb through random articles about different people with the same name, you find: Lots of Press & Sun articles (hey, its the home town paper, of course they'll write about local politics), USA today reprints of Press & Sun articles, and random articles about various news events (like the flood 2 years ago), which just so happen to include a quote from her (all of which certainly do not go into depth about her, nor pertain to her in any truthful manner). ccwaters (talk) 12:49, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete Being a county executive is far from satisfying WP:POLITICIAN. Where is the substantial coverage in multiple reliable and independent sources needed to satisfy WP:N}? Just linking to a Google News search proves nothing. The first story jusy has a quote from her, a passing reference, in a story about a business leaving town. Such is not the "substantial coverage" needed to satisfy [[WP:N. It is up to those who would keep an article to dig through the passing refs and identify several stories with the substantial coverage required. Edison2 (talk) 04:22, 24 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of New York-related deletion discussions.   —DanielPenfield (talk) 09:44, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions.   —DanielPenfield (talk) 09:44, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Living people-related deletion discussions. --Erwin85Bot (talk) 14:12, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep. We keep articles on mayors of cities with a polulation of 200000, so why not for the equivalent position in a county of the same size? Phil Bridger (talk) 12:39, 30 August 2008 (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.