Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gatineau city councillors


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The result was   delete. slakr \ talk / 03:29, 13 March 2014 (UTC)

Gatineau city councillors

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Nominator's rationale: Per longstanding consensus, city councillors are not notable enough to pass WP:POLITICIAN in most cases, except for two specific circumstances: (a) the city is a major, internationally famous "world city" with a population approaching or above a million people (and even then, this criterion extends only to that city itself, not to smaller cities within its metropolitan area — so the fact that Gatineau happens to be adjacent to Ottawa, a city which does meet this criterion, does not boost the notability of Gatineau's city councillors beyond that of any other city the size of Gatineau itself), or (b) the person has established notability for something more than just being a city councillor alone (e.g. going on to serve in the federal or provincial legislatures; emerging as a national or international spokesperson on a political issue; or passing a different notability rule, such as the ones for writers, sports figures or businesspeople.) None of these people actually meet either standard, however; all six are "notable" only as city councillors in a city not large enough for its city councillors to count as notable.

Additionally, most of these articles cite only primary sources (i.e. the city's own website) which cannot demonstrate notability at all, while a few cite only local news coverage which fails to demonstrate that they've gotten past point b above. Either way, none of them are sufficiently sourced to demonstrate that the person has actually gotten past WP:POLITICIAN in any substantive way. Delete. Bearcat (talk) 17:39, 2 March 2014 (UTC)


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 * Delete per nom. Local councillors rarely have notability. -- Necrothesp (talk) 13:35, 3 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete - Gatineau City Council already exists and that is sufficient. I suppose we could redirect some of the titles there - the more "popular" I looked at get 10-20 hits a week. But that decision can be made later at an editorial level. For now, deletion is fine. Stalwart 111  11:11, 4 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete Members of city councils are only very rarely notable as such.John Pack Lambert (talk) 19:53, 12 March 2014 (UTC)
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