Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Charles Eugene Marsala


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The result was delete. Geschichte (talk) 08:47, 2 February 2021 (UTC)

Charles Eugene Marsala

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fails NPOL and GNG. Small town mayor and failed candidacies don't meet the low bar of NPOL and there's no other meaningful coverage. CUPIDICAE💕 19:17, 25 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 19:18, 25 January 2021 (UTC)
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 * Delete Does not pass WP:NPOL. Mccapra (talk) 19:51, 25 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete mayors of places with roughly 7,000 people anywhere are almost never notable. This applies even more when the place is a dinky community in a sea of lots of other communities, many of which are significantly larger.John Pack Lambert (talk) 19:53, 25 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete. Not enough coverage in WP:GNG to merit inclusion. I'm also concerned about violations of WP:MULTIPLE, with User:Foxcaster and User:Charles Eugene Marsala working identically on this material, the former in draftspace and mainspace, the latter in userspace. Binksternet (talk) 23:03, 25 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Please be open to letting the article be revised. Atherton California is not a "dinky community." It is the heart of Silicon Valley Zip Code is 94027, one of the top Zip Codes in the Country. Homes to the executives of Silicon Valley.  Although Marsala lost when he campaigned in 2016 for US Senate, there is much more that he is doing in film documentaries with a weekly TV-show and book publishing. Since 2019 Marsala has been  President of the American-Italian Federation of the Southeast and on the national Italian board.  He is frequently cited by local media as a specialist on community topics. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Charles Eugene Marsala (talk • contribs)
 * Delete Falls incredibly short of NPOL and GNG., I opened an SPI about the two days ago regarding MEAT/Socking but it's still open. Best, GPL93 (talk) 14:05, 26 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete. Mayors of small towns in the 6K population range are not automatically entitled to have Wikipedia articles just because they exist — to qualify for an article, he would have to show that he's somehow much, much more important than most other mayors of places the size of Atherton. But nothing here does that: the article is referenced mainly to primary sources, such as the self-published content of organizations he's directly affiliated with, that are not support for notability at all, and the few sources that are actually coming from real media aren't about him, but just glancingly namecheck his existence in the process of being about something else. That's not how you reference a person as notable enough for a Wikipedia article. And no, being a potential candidate for a city council seat, even in a larger city than Atherton, still doesn't get a person into Wikipedia either — if he wins the special election and thereby becomes an actual city councillor, then yes, New Orleans is an important enough city that he might well qualify for an article at that time, but simply being a candidate for political office does not get a person into Wikipedia in and of itself. Charles, please note that Wikipedia is not a free public relations platform on which you're entitled to place yourself for campaign publicity. Bearcat (talk) 14:26, 26 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete per GNG and WP:SNOW. It has long been the consensus that mayors of small municipalities are not notable, absent a signficiant coverage in multiple and reliable secondary sources; a single passing mention in national media is not enough. This may have been excused in 2009, but in 2021, everyone knows we are not a free web host for political candidates, and our not-for-profit status could be jeopardized by being such. For such things, there's DailyKos, the right-wing media universe, and Ballotpedia. Salt it. Bearian (talk) 16:52, 29 January 2021 (UTC)


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