Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John Martin Law Sr.


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The result was delete. Daniel (talk) 00:59, 11 March 2021 (UTC)

John Martin Law Sr.

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Fails WP:GNG and WP:NPOL. Mayor of Eau Gallie, Florida in the early 1900s (population <500 at the time). Exceedingly little news coverage that I could find, outside of reports of his death in 1950. Per NPOL, simply being an elected local official does not automatically confer notability. DanCherek (talk) 05:52, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. DanCherek (talk) 05:52, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Florida-related deletion discussions. DanCherek (talk) 05:52, 4 March 2021 (UTC)


 * Delete. Eau Gallie is not a large or important enough city to confer an automatic inclusion freebie on all of its mayors just because they existed as mayors, and this features neither the sourcing nor the substance necessary to actually get a mayor over WP:NPOL #2. We are not allowed to source Wikipedia content to genealogical data in FamilySearch, and once you discount that the only other reference left here is the city government's own internal archive in its own city clerk's office, which is not a notability-making source. The notability test for mayors is the ability to write and source genuine substance about their political significance, not just the ability to locate the names of their parents and spouses. Bearcat (talk) 16:03, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete the place he was mayor of is not large or significant enough to make mayors notable. The county had a population of less than 5,000 at the time he was mayor. It is hard to trace the population of Eua Gallie, since in 1969 it was merged into Melbourne.John Pack Lambert (talk) 16:51, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete Fails WP:NPOL....William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 17:40, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete doesn't pass WP:NPOL. The population Eau Gallie didn't even reach 500 total residents until ten years after his term ended. Best, GPL93 (talk) 16:07, 8 March 2021 (UTC)


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