Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dan Curtis (politician)


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The result was redirect to List of mayors of Whitehorse.  Sandstein  06:51, 4 July 2021 (UTC)

Dan Curtis (politician)

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WP:BLP of a small city mayor, not featuring sufficient substance or sourcing to get him over WP:NPOL #2. Although I'm actually the original creator here, I did so at a very different time in Wikipedia history -- once upon a time, mayors of "regionally significant" cities were automatically entitled to keep Wikipedia articles as soon as it was possible to verify that they existed as mayors, without regard to whether the article actually had any meaningful depth or sourcing. But that rule has since been tightened up, and the bar a mayor now has to clear is the ability to write and source a substantive article about his political impact as mayor: specific accomplishments, specific projects he spearheaded, specific effects he had on the development of the city, and on and so forth. But other than stating that he exists as a mayor, the content here is entirely unsuccessful runs for the territorial legislature and his appearance in a viral video that just makes him a WP:BLP1E -- nobody's ever been arsed to add any substantive content about his mayoralty to make this article useful or valuable, and about all I can find is glancing namechecks of his existence in coverage of the failed legislature campaigns and the ribbon-cuttings at new public buildings, rather than anything that would meaningfully bolster his notability. Bearcat (talk) 14:27, 26 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 14:27, 26 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 14:27, 26 June 2021 (UTC)


 * Delete mayors of places with under 30,000 people need way better sourcing to justify keeping the article.John Pack Lambert (talk) 17:40, 28 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Redirect to List of mayors of Whitehorse: I agree with your statement regarding the past practice of automatically conferring notability to mayors of regional cities. Redirect is better in this case than outright delete, however. It would also be worth checking out the list of the other mayors of Whitehorse to see if any of those are non-notable as well. Curbon7 (talk) 21:44, 28 June 2021 (UTC)


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