Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ben Florsheim


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The result was delete.  Sandstein  08:44, 3 May 2020 (UTC)

Ben Florsheim

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A mayor of a ciry with the population of 45K, all coverage is local. Ymblanter (talk) 07:57, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Ymblanter (talk) 07:57, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Connecticut-related deletion discussions. Ymblanter (talk) 07:57, 26 April 2020 (UTC)


 * Delete a non-notable local level mayor with only routine coverage. We need significant coverage far from where he is to show notability for mayors of places this size. We can get coverage of this level of absolutely every person who is a mayor, and we have never decided that being a mayor is a default sign of notability.John Pack Lambert (talk) 16:47, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete - The article had serious undue problems, which I tried to fix (why was his college thesis on there?). He might have been notable as a particularly young mayor, but I don't think he has wide enough coverage in the secondary sources at this point to say so. I mostly just see local news coverage, which, as says, doesn't make him notable. Ikjbagl (talk) 21:52, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Considering there are multiple places that have elected mayors at 18 I do not see a 27-year-old as even being "particularly young."John Pack Lambert (talk) 12:00, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete. Middletown CT is not large enough to confer "inherent" notability on its mayors under WP:NPOL #2 just because they exist, happening to be younger than his predecessors does not automatically make him more special, and the fact that it's possible to cite a handful of campaign coverage in the local media is not an automatic notability pass for a mayor either, because every mayor of everywhere can always show some of that. You get a mayor over the notability bar by writing and reliably sourcing a substantive article about his work in the mayor's chair, not just by writing and sourcing his career background and the election results. Bearcat (talk) 16:13, 27 April 2020 (UTC)


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