Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/James M. King (politician)


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The result was delete. Not convinced salting is necessary here. Eddie891 Talk Work 12:42, 6 October 2021 (UTC)

James M. King (politician)

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PROD contested.

Non-notable mayor of a small city. Fails WP:NPOL; newspapers.com has some local news coverage, but nothing that really provides WP:SIGCOV beyond WP:LOCAL, so also fails WP:GNG. Curbon7 (talk) 03:18, 15 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Curbon7 (talk) 03:18, 15 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Minnesota-related deletion discussions. Curbon7 (talk) 03:18, 15 September 2021 (UTC)


 * Delete. While Bloomington MN appears to be large enough that a substantive and well-sourced article about a mayor could potentially be kept, it is not large or important enough that its mayors would simply be presumed notable just because you write and primary source a short blurb that barely goes any further than "he was a mayor who existed". The notability test for mayors is not passed simply by writing a few stray tidbits of biographical trivia; it is passed by writing and reliably sourcing (meaning media coverage, not the city's own self-published website about itself) a substantive article about his political impact: specific things he accomplished, specific projects he spearheaded, specific effects he had on the development of the city, and on and so forth. But that's not what this article is. Bearcat (talk) 19:03, 17 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep.  Bloomington in 1970 had a population of 84, 000; the level at which we presume notability for a mayor is somewhere between 50,0000 and 100,000 .  DGG ( talk )
 * The size-of-the-city test for mayors was deprecated years and years ago, and is no longer relevant to establishing the notability of a mayor at all. There's no longer any presumption of notability granted to mayors of any size of city in the absence of meaningful and reliably sourced substance about the significance of their mayoralty. Bearcat (talk) 15:38, 22 September 2021 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 06:11, 22 September 2021 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, – filelakeshoe (t / c) 🐱 12:33, 29 September 2021 (UTC)


 * Delete Per Bearcat, fails WP:NPOL. JayJayWhat did I do? 14:34, 29 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete for lack of notability, and salt since this was moved to draft and editor created it anyway, indicating a lack of understanding of our guidelines. See also, all these other mayoral AfDs. Star   Mississippi  20:50, 30 September 2021 (UTC)


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