Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Heidi Harmon


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The result was delete. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 13:26, 30 October 2017 (UTC)

Heidi Harmon

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WP:BLP of a person notable primarily as the mayor of a city with a population of 45K, which is not large enough to confer an automatic presumption of notability on a mayor. The article is not reliably sourced well enough to pass the "who have received significant press coverage" part of our criteria for local officeholders, either, as it's sourced only to a minimal selection of WP:ROUTINE local coverage of the type that's simply expected to exist for any mayor anywhere: two pieces of election-results coverage, and one article about her giving a speech about her policy priorities a few days later when she was still just mayor-elect. In a city this size, what we require to deem a mayor notable is not just verification that she exists, but substantial evidence that she's more notable than most other small-city mayors: either a lot more coverage than this, or evidence that her coverage is expanding beyond the purely local. Bearcat (talk) 18:55, 10 October 2017 (UTC)
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 * Keep Significant coverage in local, regional, and national sources. An example for the latter is linked here gidonb (talk) 00:01, 16 October 2017 (UTC)
 * That's not an article about her — it's an article that just briefly namechecks her existence as one example of a wider trend. That's not significant coverage for the purposes of getting a mayor past WP:NPOL #2. Bearcat (talk) 16:37, 17 October 2017 (UTC)


 * Keep San Luis Obispo is enough of a city for their mayor to be notable. 190.10.8.116 (talk) 00:05, 16 October 2017 (UTC)
 * The notability of a mayor is fundamentally dependent on how well they can be reliably sourced, not on the size of the city. For large cities (100K minimum), we may give them a chance at improvement by flagging them for "refimprove" and keeping them for a while even if the sourcing is inadequate at first, but they're still not exempted from having to be improved and can still be deleted if the sourcing remains inadequate. But in a city of just 45K, the sourcing has to be solid right up front before the article is allowed to exist at all. Bearcat (talk) 16:35, 17 October 2017 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Strong delete Being used in one article to illustrate a supposed trend in politics, does not show the individual is notable. Being mayor of such a minor place is not on its own sign of notability, and there is not enough coverage of the subject to show notability.John Pack Lambert (talk) 04:18, 16 October 2017 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 01:10, 17 October 2017 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Strong delete - Not notable despite her role.Acnetj (talk) 04:41, 18 October 2017 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  Sandstein   15:04, 24 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete WP:NPOL doesn't strongly suggest any outcome, and there's not enough coverage to meet WP:GNG. Possibly WP:TOOSOON. power~enwiki ( π,  ν ) 21:08, 24 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete - Insufficient coverage in sources to meet WP:POLITICIAN or WP:GNG. --Jack Frost (talk) 08:29, 29 October 2017 (UTC).


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