Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Janet Looker


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The result was delete. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 21:15, 20 March 2018 (UTC)

Janet Looker

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I do not believe that this individual meets WP:GNG or WP:POLITICIAN. She is a councillor in the City of York Council but I don't believe she has any other claims to notability. This article was created two weeks ago, and I am unimpressed that the article's creator couldn't be bothered to provide decent references. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 09:33, 13 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. The Mighty Glen (talk) 09:50, 13 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Women-related deletion discussions. The Mighty Glen (talk) 09:50, 13 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of England-related deletion discussions. The Mighty Glen (talk) 09:50, 13 March 2018 (UTC)


 * Delete: not yet notable per WP:NPOL or WP:BIO. Local councillors don't normally get an article in Wikipedia, unless there's substantial secondary coverage of them in WP:RS, and all I can see is few of the usual mentions in local press that you'd expect to see for the opposition leader of a city council in the UK. I've rescued the broken references, which were pasted in (along with the vastly over-detailed electoral results) from other articles. The Mighty Glen (talk) 09:56, 13 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete per nomination and above comments by The Mighty Glen. Who writes such text? ("...After her children were old enough to go to school, Looker started thinking about how she would make a career for herself...") -The Gnome (talk) 10:16, 13 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete. York is not in the narrow range of internationally prominent global cities where we accept the city councillors as automatically passing WP:NPOL — so her ability to qualify for an article depends entirely on being shown as the subject of enough media coverage to clear WP:NPOL #2. And it's one of those English cities where the mayoralty automatically rotates every year so that everybody on council gets a turn, so she doesn't get an automatic free pass over our notability standards for mayors, either. And yeah, the article reads like it was written by a relative of hers, to boot. Bearcat (talk) 15:21, 13 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete - notability not yet established Dreamspy (talk) 19:03, 13 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete Currently the longest serving councillor on City of York Council, elected in 1995 and stepping down next year, a member of North Yorkshire County Council for 10 years before that and a former Lord Mayor of York. A fine public servant but with no significant coverage in independent, reliable sources to meet the general notability guideline. --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 04:05, 17 March 2018 (UTC)


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