Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Charles T. Perry


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The result was   keep. (non-admin closure) – Davey 2010 Talk 05:05, 26 February 2015 (UTC)

Charles T. Perry

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Perry's only claim to fame was serving as mayor of Hoboken, New Jersey. No evidence that this isa city either regionally significant enough or populous enough for such a position to confir notability. John Pack Lambert (talk) 18:40, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of New Jersey-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 22:15, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 22:15, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
 * Keep and expand --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 01:37, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Mayor of Hoboken, New Jersey. I'm not seeing much other than a short New York Times announcement of his suicide. Clarityfiend (talk) 03:40, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Keep. This nominator is also voting to delete one or more mayors of Bossier City, Louisiana, on grounds that the city, which is larger than Hoboken, is too small to have notable mayors. "Local politicians" have their place on Wikipedia if there is adequate coverage, whether local sources or not. Billy Hathorn (talk) 04:02, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Keep As a major local political leader, with ample coverage in reliable and verifiable sources to establish notability, including an obituary in a national paper of record and coverage in contemporaneous encylopedic sources. Despite its size, Hoboken punches far above its weight, drawing a disproportionate level of coverage from New York City and New Jersey newspapers, as evidenced here and in the article for the present mayor, Dawn Zimmer. The nominator appears to have prejudged this AfD based on the city's size and has made no mention or taken any consideration of the availability of reliable and verifiable sources or of alternative solutions as explicitly required by WP:BEFORE. The additional failure to combine a series of such AfDs all based on the same rationalization raises further issues. Alansohn (talk) 01:01, 15 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete. Mayor of a city of 50,000 people. Just not notable enough. -- Necrothesp (talk) 15:31, 17 February 2015 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, &mdash; Coffee //  have a cup  //  beans  // 02:28, 21 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Keep The nomination's argument is classic WP:NOTBIGENOUGH but "Notability isn't determined by something's quantity of members, but rather by the quality of the subject's verifiable, reliable sources." We have a guy currently at RfA who has been working for years on a place with a pop of just over 300 and most everyone seems to think that's wonderful.  Andrew D. (talk) 09:08, 21 February 2015 (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.