Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Frank Minor


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The result was   delete. Jenks24 (talk) 18:10, 4 September 2014 (UTC)

Frank Minor

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Minor is the mayor of a place with under 7,000 people. This makes him way below the notability threshold for politicians. Nothing else about him is important enough to merit having an article. John Pack Lambert (talk) 02:08, 24 August 2014 (UTC)
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 * Delete - Lives up to his surname, a mayor of a minor community isn't exactly notable. A redirect is possible if his town has a list of mayors, but as it's small, it probably won't matter anyway. Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 03:16, 24 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep. Two of the references are from media outside New Jersey. This old revision included coverage of a lawsuit against the mayor alleging sexual harassment. Somnetimes a mayor of a small community can pass WP:GNG. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 05:42, 24 August 2014 (UTC)
 * The township that he was the mayor of is located right on the border of New Jersey with Pennsylvania, immediately across the Delaware River from a suburb of Philadelphia — and both of the "outside of New Jersey" references are to Philadelphia media. So they don't really get him past GNG just because they're "out of state" — because Philadelphia is the township's local media source. Bearcat (talk) 18:49, 25 August 2014 (UTC)


 * Delete. Local politician in a small town who doesn't pass WP:NPOL on that basis, without enough substantive or non-local coverage (as I explain above, Philly is the local media) to get him past WP:GNG in its place. And for WP:BLP reasons, we should rightly avoid talking about sexual harassment allegations where "the outcome of the case is unknown", which is what Eastmain's diff says about it — so while I suppose he might get a notability boost out of it if he had actually been convicted of anything, as things actually stand it can't make him more noteworthy than any other mayor of a town this size. Which leaves us with only routine local coverage, insufficient for GNG, of a smalltown mayor who doesn't get an automatic NPOL pass — and that means delete. Bearcat (talk) 18:49, 25 August 2014 (UTC)
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