Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Frederick L. Schmersahl


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The result was   keep. Article's subject is found to pass WP:GNG. &mdash; Coffee //  have a cup  //  beans  // 02:26, 21 February 2015 (UTC)

Frederick L. Schmersahl

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Schmersahl's closest claim to notability is serving as mayor of Hoboken, New Jersey. This is a city of neither enough regional importance or population to confir notability on the mayor. John Pack Lambert (talk) 18:58, 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. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 19:25, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of New Jersey-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 22:28, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 22:28, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 22:28, 13 February 2015 (UTC)


 * Redirect to Mayor of Hoboken, New Jersey. None of the existing references are about him specifically, except one paragraph taken from somewhere where he might have been accused of financial misconduct while in office. Fails GNG and WP:POLITICIAN. Clarityfiend (talk) 00:39, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Keep as notable local politician though the article needs more information for a better glimpse of this mayor. Size of Hoboken is not a factor in killing the article. Billy Hathorn (talk) 17:27, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Keep As a major local political leader, with ample coverage in reliable and verifiable sources to establish notability, including coverage in contemporaneous news coverage and encylopedic sources. 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 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) 01:24, 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! 14:02, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete. Mayor of a city of 50,000 people. Just not notable enough. -- Necrothesp (talk) 15:30, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Keep per WP:BASIC. Whether or not mayors of Hoboken are presumed notable as mayors of regionally significant cities, the multiple New York Times articles constitute significant coverage appropriate to the time period. 24.151.10.165 (talk) 16:58, 19 February 2015 (UTC)
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