Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John A. Degnan


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The result was delete. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 00:18, 7 June 2019 (UTC)

John A. Degnan

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Fails WP:NPOL as the highest office held was a town of less than 3,000. All coverage is either routine for a small town mayor or about his unsuccessful State Assembly race. GPL93 (talk) 19:42, 30 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of New York-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 21:04, 30 May 2019 (UTC)
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 * Delete defeated candidates for state legislature are not notable.John Pack Lambert (talk) 04:30, 2 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete. Brewster NY is not large enough to hand its mayors an automatic notability freebie just for existing as mayors, but the referencing here is not doing nearly as good a job of getting him over WP:NPOL #2 as it thinks it is. By far the majority of the footnotes here are glancing namechecks of Degnan's existence as mayor in coverage of other things, not coverage about Degnan for the purposes of establishing him as the subject of significant press coverage — and the few that are actually about Degnan in any non-trivial way are literally just the expected campaign coverage in the local media that every mayor of every town and every unsuccessful state legislature candidate can always show. To qualify for an article, Degnan would have to show evidence that he's a special case of significantly greater notability than most other smalltown mayors — but that's not what these sources are showing. Bearcat (talk) 14:26, 2 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete per above comments of Bearcat. I can find no GNG of this mayor  Lubbad85   (☎) 22:39, 3 June 2019 (UTC)


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