Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Darrell Mussatto (2nd nomination)


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The result was delete. Tone 19:58, 15 May 2020 (UTC)

Darrell Mussatto
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Suburban mayor without strong enough reliable source coverage to pass WP:NPOL #2. Although a prior discussion in 2014 closed as no consensus, Wikipedia's notability standards for mayors have evolved even further since then. The old idea that mayors are "inherently" notable, regardless of their sourceability, the moment the city's population was within striking distance of 50,000 (which was already on its way out in 2014, but still sometimes showed up at AFD anyway) has been fully deprecated -- and we're also now a lot clearer about testing the mayor's sources for their depth and type and geographic range, and not just counting their number.

There are nine footnotes here, but one of them is just a repetition of one of the others, so there are really only eight sources -- but of those, two are primary sources that are not support for notability at all, three are from a suburban community weekly hyperlocal, the reduplicated one is from an alt-weekly, and just two are from the market's main daily newspaper -- so only the two Vancouver Sun hits are even really relevant to whether he passes GNG or not, but one of them is just a piece of campaign coverage which mentions him without being about him to any non-trivial degree, and the other is just technical verification that he won the election. This is not enough coverage to make a suburban mayor notable enough for inclusion in an international encyclopedia. Bearcat (talk) 19:03, 8 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 19:03, 8 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of British Columbia-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 19:03, 8 May 2020 (UTC)


 * Delete a non-notable mayor of a place that is not even the most significant place in its metro area.John Pack Lambert (talk) 16:36, 12 May 2020 (UTC)


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