Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/James E. Stephenson


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The result was delete. Daniel (talk) 22:32, 3 April 2021 (UTC)

James E. Stephenson

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Stephenson was mayor of Ann Arbor, Michigan, a city that is not of such importance that the mayor would be default notable. All we have as sourcing is the local newspaper obituary. We need more than this to show that a mayor is notable. John Pack Lambert (talk) 19:11, 26 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Automated comment: This AfD was not correctly transcluded to the log (step 3). I have transcluded it to Articles for deletion/Log/2021 March 26.  —cyberbot I   Talk to my owner :Online 19:29, 26 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. CommanderWaterford (talk) 19:37, 26 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Michigan-related deletion discussions. CommanderWaterford (talk) 19:37, 26 March 2021 (UTC)


 * Delete. Ann Arbor is large enough that a substantive and well-sourced article about a mayor would very likely be kept, but is not so large or important that just two sentences, going no further than stating that he existed and sourced solely to a single obituary in the local newspaper, would be enough in and of itself. I'm obviously willing to reconsider this if somebody with much better access to archived Michigan/US media coverage than I've got can expand the article to feature significantly more sourcing and substance than this, but having an article about every mayor Ann Arbor had is not critically important enough to justify putting this little work into any of them. Bearcat (talk) 13:40, 27 March 2021 (UTC)


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