Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Individual Toronto mayoral campaigns


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The result was   delete. Black Kite (talk) 21:29, 23 September 2014 (UTC)

Individual Toronto mayoral campaigns

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As at Articles for deletion/Karen Stintz mayoral campaign, 2014, Articles for deletion/David Soknacki mayoral campaign, 2014 and Articles for deletion/Rob Ford mayoral campaign, 2014, a separate spinoff article about an individual candidate's campaign in a municipal election is not the kind of thing we need on Wikipedia. While we've allowed this type of thing for presidential campaigns in the United States, there has never been any consensus to extend that to municipal offices in any country. Bill de Blasio doesn't have one of these, Rahm Emanuel doesn't have one of these, Eric Garcetti doesn't have one of these, Boris Johnson doesn't have one of these, Klaus Wowereit doesn't have one of these, Bertrand Delanoë doesn't have one of these, and on and so forth — no mayoral candidate in any city on earth, even much larger ones than Toronto, has ever qualified for this degree of treatment before, and there's no reason why mayoral candidates in Toronto would warrant a special degree of coverage far beyond what any mayoral candidate in New York City or Chicago or Los Angeles or London or Paris or Berlin has ever been given. Any content that's worth keeping should be merged directly into Toronto mayoral election, 2014 and/or the candidates' existing standalone bios, but these spinoff articles are overdoing it and should be deleted. Bearcat (talk) 06:49, 16 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 06:56, 16 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 06:56, 16 September 2014 (UTC)


 * Delete both Unnecessary level of detail for a municipal election campaign. Should be briefly covered in the election article in a "Campaign" section (which is currently missing). Number   5  7  14:46, 16 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Ontario-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 17:46, 16 September 2014 (UTC)
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 * Delete both and any others that may appear. That's what the main election article and the individual (bio) articles are for.  freshacconci  talk to me  20:06, 16 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete both per all of the above reasons. It would set a bad precedent to allow run-of-the-mill campaigns to have articles. Clarityfiend (talk) 00:59, 17 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete all. Content could be merged into the election page or the candidate articles. Having a candidate mayoral campaign page for a municipal election isn't worth keeping. ///Euro Car  GT  23:40, 17 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete both per the precedent cited in the nomination. Egsan Bacon (talk) 19:35, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete for the reasons stated above.--Truther2012 (talk) 20:10, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete as unnecessary content forks. See also Articles for deletion/Rob Ford mayoral campaign, 2014. Downwoody (talk) 22:15, 19 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete both. We've never had individiual articles for individuals who actually do run for mayor in local elections. There is plenty of space in the somewhat meagre Toronto mayoral election, 2014 to add information about the campaigns of the leading candidates. Nfitz (talk) 19:51, 20 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Userfy so that content can be merged to the election article, then delete. might have a different view but I think this was always the eventual intent for these pages. There's useful material here that should be in the election article. Ivanvector (talk) 19:00, 23 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep – I have no idea why Toronto's mayoral election is being treated like some election in a city with only 10,000 people in it. This clearly meets WP:GNG. Kingjeff (talk) 19:06, 23 September 2014 (UTC)
 * It isn't being treated that way. It's being treated the way we treat all municipal elections. The mayors listed above whose individual campaigns don't have separate articles govern cities of 8,405,837; 2,718,782; 3,884,307; 8,196,700; 3,517,424; and 12,292,895; versus Toronto's 2,615,060. It's not being treated like a small town, it's being treated like every other municipal-level election. Ivanvector (talk) 20:44, 23 September 2014 (UTC)
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