Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Christopher Seeley


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The result was no consensus. W.marsh 23:25, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

Christopher Seeley

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Won a local election with only 144 voters. Just being an elected local official does not guarantee notability according to WP:Bio Average Earthman 20:41, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete One of the youngest mayors is not sufficient, especially when you are talking about an incorporated area of 1100 people. --Brianyoumans 21:24, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep I remember him getting a bit of national press coverage when he won. There are a number of legitimate articles that can be found on Google and his youth does, in my opinion, go a long way towards establishing notability.  He started running for office when he was 17 and became mayor at 18, that is really quite rare. --The Way 01:13, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep It seems to me that Christopher Seeley meets the notability for local politicians. If he doesn't meet notability than I doubt that any local politician could meet notability and I disagree with that. While an article cannot be created for every local politician it makes sense that those who are notable enough should be included. I also noticed that Michael Sessions and Sam Juhl also have articles and neither have been nominated for deletion. Edward Lalone | (Talk) 03:02, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment Sessions is the mayor of a town of 8000, and is a high school student. Juhl is a high school student and is claimed to be the youngest mayor on record. Seeley is a college student, the mayor of an even smaller entity, and not claimed to be the youngest ever in any way. --Brianyoumans 06:14, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment He still remains one of the youngest mayors in the US right now. He's young enough that he garnered quite a bit of attention for it.  Notability can be established by the multiple, non-trivial sources about him.  It's very rare for someone who is 18 to run for and win an actual public office.  --The Way 06:36, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment - Sessions appears to have parlayed his election - as mayor of a larger town - into national and even international media interest . Seeley hasn't, from a google search, which appears to show largely local newspaper articles. Compare google hits for "Christopher Seeley" + mayor to those for "Michael Sessions" + mayor. I make it around 170 for Seeley, around 10,000 for Sessions. Average Earthman 18:29, 23 January 2007 (UTC)


 * keep None of these are precedents if they are wrong, but they are appropriate articles & so is this. The news coverage, and the ghits are enough. Yes, Sessions is even better known. DGG 01:25, 24 January 2007 (UTC)


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