Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Daniel Băluță


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The result was delete. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 21:19, 3 April 2016 (UTC)

Daniel Băluță

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Fails WP:POLITICIAN. He doesn't meet point 1 at all, and I would submit he doesn't meet point 2, either. Let's quickly run through the sources: not independent, irrelevant, blog post, kind of irrelevant (it's the resignation announcement of his predecessor), then we have basically a résumé from when he took office, and finally some routine coverage of his rather small-scale initiatives: hiring pensioners to garden and closing kiosks.

I looked around, and all coverage of the man seems to be on this level, no different from dozens of other Romanian mayors. (Just to be clear, he is not the Mayor of Bucharest, who is almost always notable, but one of the mayors of the Sectors of Bucharest, who very rarely are.) He wasn't even elected: he became interim mayor in November and will leave office in June, since he isn't running for a full term. So, taking all this into account, I would argue that there isn't enough significant coverage to render the subject notable, and the article should be deleted. - Biruitorul Talk 03:30, 27 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 23:44, 27 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Romania-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 23:44, 27 March 2016 (UTC)


 * Comment: It seems he is running for a full term, see this article. Razvan Socol (talk) 15:16, 28 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Apologies - I'd only looked at a list of PNL candidates by mistake. The point largely remains: not notable now, and not notable even if elected for a full term, unless he achieves notoriety for something more than shuttering kiosks.
 * If you look at the current sectoral mayors in Bucharest, Chiliman, Negoiță and Mănescu are notable - if only because all three of them have served in the Chamber of Deputies as well. Toader (who just replaced Onțanu), Croitoru (Vanghelie's successor) and Băluță are not - they're in office on an interim basis and haven't achieved the level of coverage granted to notable politicians. Do you think that's a fair assessment? - Biruitorul Talk 16:39, 28 March 2016 (UTC)
 * I agree, he's not yet notable enough (as Onțanu, Vanghelie and Piedone were). Razvan Socol (talk) 16:59, 30 March 2016 (UTC)


 * Delete He is the mayor of a sub-district of a city. This is not enough to establish notability.John Pack Lambert (talk) 15:12, 29 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete. Councillor and acting mayor in a single city district. NN. -- Necrothesp (talk) 14:22, 30 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete as still questionable. SwisterTwister   talk  07:04, 1 April 2016 (UTC)


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