Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jerry Munson


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The result was soft delete‎__EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__. Based on minimal participation, this uncontroversial nomination is treated as an expired PROD (a.k.a. "soft deletion"). Editors can request the article's undeletion. ✗ plicit  14:19, 16 July 2024 (UTC)

Jerry Munson

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Biography of a mayor, not properly sourced as passing WP:NPOL #2. As always, mayors are not "inherently" notable enough for Wikipedia articles just because they existed, and the inclusion test for a mayor is the ability to write and source a substantive article about their political impact -- specific things they did, specific projects they spearheaded, specific effects their mayoralty had on the development of the city, and on and so forth. But this essentially just glancingly mentions that he served as mayor while primarily concentrating on background trivia about his childhood and educational background that has no bearing on notability at all, and it's referenced more than 50 per cent to the self-published website of the funeral home that held his funeral, which is not a notability-building source -- and what's left for media coverage is entirely run of the mill short blurbs about his death itself, with absolutely no evidence shown of any at-the-time coverage of his work in politics. Again, just minimally verifying that a mayor existed is not how you establish him as notable enough for a Wikipedia article: we need to see coverage and analysis about the impact of his work in politics, not just background biographical trivia about where he went to high school. Bearcat (talk) 12:58, 9 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Politicians and South Dakota. Bearcat (talk) 12:58, 9 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions.  WC  Quidditch   ☎   ✎  18:48, 9 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Delete Non-notable local official, all coverage seems to be ROTM. BottleOfChocolateMilk (talk) 06:31, 12 July 2024 (UTC)


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