Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John Mutton (Canadian politician)


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The result was   delete. Black Kite (talk) 10:39, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

John Mutton (Canadian politician)

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WP:BLP of a mayor of a midsized town; although the population (85K) is large enough to put the town in the population range where we consider mayors to potentially be notable enough, the real problem here is the quality of sourcing: as written, the article relies almost entirely on primary sources and local community media that aren't widely distributed enough to count as evidence of encyclopedic notability — and the only source that really passes muster here, the Toronto Star, is simply giving routine coverage of municipal election campaigns in the Greater Toronto Area, mentioning Mutton's name only in passing and thus failing to constitute substantive coverage of him. With the result being that the sourcing isn't good enough to get him past WP:NPOL's cutoff for the inclusion or exclusion of mayors in cities of this size under contemporary standards. Thus, it's a delete. Bearcat (talk) 23:31, 11 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 23:31, 11 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 23:31, 11 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Ontario-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 12:08, 12 August 2014 (UTC)


 * Comment. This is a case where we could really do with the old Google News Archive search - the two replacements produce nothing, but the first few pages of a full Google search supply several hits from Toronto regional newspapers (and not just about a dropped domestic violence case that we would probably want to ignore) and make it look as if a thorough search (perhaps on Highbeam or in a Canada-specific archive) would turn up more. PWilkinson (talk) 08:24, 14 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete Too small to give mayor notability.John Pack Lambert (talk) 01:01, 17 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete Fails WP:NPOL and WP:GNG. --MelanieN (talk) 01:29, 18 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Comment Highbeam provided two passing references, but neither quite reaching signficant coverage. The longer of the two reads: To express support of the community for the Canadian host site, the Canadian Delegation included John Mutton, the Mayor of the Municipality of Clarington and Roger Anderson, Chair of the Region of Durham. Mayor Mutton emphasized the excellent technical and socio-cultural characteristics of the Canadian site and the enthusiasm of the local community to host ITER.  --j⚛e deckertalk 20:20, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
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