Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/George W. Morton


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The result was   keep. § FreeRangeFrog croak 08:37, 20 February 2015 (UTC)

George W. Morton

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Morton's highest claim to notability is serving as mayor of Hoboken. Hoboken is neither large enough nor regionally important enough for the mayor to gain notability for such. John Pack Lambert (talk) 18:26, 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) 22:12, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 22:12, 13 February 2015 (UTC)


 * Redirect to ... three guesses. The New York Times devotes one sentence to his passing, after a missionary appointment, a fire, Baptist anniversaries, etc. Clarityfiend (talk) 03:52, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Keep Sourcing seems adequate for one who died in 1865. Qualfies as local politician. Billy Hathorn (talk) 17:36, 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, drawing a disproportionate level of coverage from New York City and New Jersey newspapers, 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) 00:56, 15 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete. Mayor of a city of 50,000 people. Just not notable enough. -- Necrothesp (talk) 15:32, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
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