Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/David Roberts (mayor)


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The result was   keep. Article's subject is found to pass WP:GNG. &mdash; Coffee //  have a cup  //  beans  // 02:20, 21 February 2015 (UTC)

David Roberts (mayor)

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Roberts' only claim thatcomes close to notability is serving as mayor of Hoboken. This is a city lacking the regional significance or population to grant mayors automatic notability. The sources are largely local in nature. Beyond this, the neutrality of this article has been in dispute since 2011 with no progress on the matter, showing why such articles should not be kept. We lack the localized resources to keep them in good shape. John Pack Lambert (talk) 19:31, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Keep the article meets the general notability guideline. I am not sure what the population size has to do with notability. This should be administratively closed. The nominator seems to have some grudge against the city. The New York Times is not a local Hoboken paper. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 20:00, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of New Jersey-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 22:40, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 22:40, 13 February 2015 (UTC)


 * Keep. Mayors fall under "local politicians" and are notable with adequate news coverage even if from local sources. The nominator is also voting to remove at least one mayor of Bossier City, Louisiana on grounds that he lacks notability. Billy Hathorn (talk) 03:59, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Keep per WP:BASIC. Significant coverage such as, and . 24.151.10.165 (talk) 22:57, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Keep As a major local political leader, with ample coverage in reliable and verifiable sources to establish notability. Despite its size, Hoboken punches far above its weight, making it a regionally important city, 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 or quality 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) 02:22, 15 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Keep In the NYC metro region, Hoboken is an extremely important city, for political, transportation, residential and cultural reasons. Its importance to the region is not proportional to its population. Liz  Read! Talk! 13:53, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete. Mayor of a city of 50,000 people. Just not notable enough. -- Necrothesp (talk) 15:27, 17 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.