Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jenny Farrar


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was   delete. Wizardman 16:59, 28 November 2014 (UTC)

Jenny Farrar

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Mayor of a suburban council for one year then lost council seat. Mostly unreferenced BLP. The only other mayors of that council with articles are people with other claims to notability besides the mayoralty. The Drover&#39;s Wife (talk) 01:45, 20 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Your first sentence is a bit misleading. Mayors normally serve for just one year. She appeared to be a councillor from 2002 to 2008 from the article. I have no opinion on the deletion at this point. -- Bduke   (Discussion)  20:05, 20 November 2014 (UTC)
 * I didn't say anything about her term as a councillor (which is really not a claim to notability). I just said that she served a one-year term as a suburban mayor, that that's her only claim to notability, and that she then lost her seat at the next election. I doubt one could find sources to expand this or even verify a lot of what is there. The Drover&#39;s Wife (talk) 01:18, 21 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Australia-related deletion discussions. Grahame (talk) 00:35, 21 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 16:29, 21 November 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia's inclusion standards for politicians do not grant an automatic presumption of notability to all mayors. Places where the mayoralty is a ceremonial position where the mayor is chosen by an internal council vote (or by automatic rotation) to a one-year term, in particular, do not confer notability on their mayors — and being a city councillor doesn't make her notable either, as Wikipedia's standards for city councillors are even more restrictive (they can claim an automatic NPOL pass only in cities listed as alpha, beta or gamma class in world city). She could potentially still qualify for an article under WP:GNG if it were properly sourced and genuinely substantive, but in addition to falling short of NPOL she doesn't pass GNG either, as this article relies entirely on primary sources (tables of raw election results, her profile on the website of her own political party) and fails to cite even one legitimately reliable source to support her notability. Which means she's a delete. Bearcat (talk) 20:02, 21 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete. Local councilor and short-term mayor of a small city is definitely not notable. Work as an "organisor" even less so.Mark Marathon (talk) 02:48, 25 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete Nothing to show she meets WP:NPOL or WP:GNG. 131.118.229.17 (talk) 22:01, 25 November 2014 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.