Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jon Kaiman


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The result was   no consensus to delete, defaulting to keep.--SarekOfVulcan (talk) 17:20, 24 June 2009 (UTC)

Jon Kaiman

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Non-notable local town supervisor, page created by spa - seems to be vanity Passportguy (talk) 17:28, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
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Supervisor Jon Kaiman represents 7th largest municipality out of approximately 1500 Towns, cities and villages in the State of New York. His record serving the 260,000+ people in North Hempstead is long and distinguished, as CNN Money Magazine recently confirmed, ranking the North Hempstead number 46 out of the top 100 Best Places to Live in America. This post believes the catalyst for creating a page for Supervisor Kaiman was the amount of innovative environmental initiatives he has spearheaded (including a Town-Wide School Recycling Partnership Program, the likes of which have not been seen anywhere in the State and is up for consideration for the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation Excellence Award, a Pharmaceutical Collection Event, which received national recognition through AP recently, plans in the works to build the states 3rd platinum leed certified municipal building in New Cassel complete with Solar paneled roof and hybrid carport) innovative government programs (including a 311 constituent response system, Project Independence – a rapidly expanding senior assistance program aimed to allow seniors stay in their homes longer) sound finances (incredibly, in this current climate, Moody’s has affirmed the Town’s highest-in-history Aa2 bond rating, with a positive outlook and a phenomenal .36% rate on the one-year bond anticipation notes issues).

While this post can go on, it seems due diligence to have Supervisor Kaiman on Wikipedia similar to Supervisor Kate Murray, who currently enjoys her own: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Murray

The comment previous to this says, non-notable and vanity. That statement unfortunately is inaccurate, most probably made by an individual unaware of New York State Politics. In New York, past and current senators, state senators and past-previous attorney generals have all appeared with Supervisor Kaiman to partner on government initiatives. Wikipedia is a quality source of information, designed to allow web users to have quick and accurate information on individuals, places, events etc. Wikipedia should only highlight those that are noteworthy. Supervisor Kaiman is indeed a noteworthy leader of the 7th largest municipality out of the 1,500 in NYS, and he was a noteworthy district court judge, receiving the high possible rating from the Bar Association, and web browsers ought to be able to discern who those noteworthy leaders are. This post strongly recommends Supervisor Kaiman’s page stay as is. 12:44, 11 June 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.254.18.130 (talk)  Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:03, 17 June 2009 (UTC)
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 * Delete Minor position in a small town = very narrow scope of notability. Corpx (talk) 17:18, 17 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete per Corpx. Fails WP:POLITICIAN. لenna  vecia  23:29, 17 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep He's the equivalent of mayor, not a minor position. And North Hempstead, New York has over 220,000 people-- so that makes the area equivalent to  a city by any reasonable standard.    DGG (talk) 02:17, 18 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Were you able to find multiple reliable sources independent of the subject from which to write an article? لenna  vecia  15:13, 19 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep and clean up Per WP:POLITICIAN, he passes the second point fer DGGs comment. Yes the article needs to be cleaned up for WP:NPOV, but that would fall under WP:ATD.  Any of the information in the article that cannot be backed up by reliable secondary sources, needs to be removed from the article.  Click23 (talk) 13:43, 24 June 2009 (UTC)
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