Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lester E. Taylor III


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The result was delete. Killiondude (talk) 06:20, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

Lester E. Taylor III

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fails WP:POLITICIAN, created as a promotional article by a now-banned WP:SPA named CityOfEastOrange. Rusf10 (talk) 05:01, 27 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Happy holidays! Baby miss  fortune 06:04, 27 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions. Happy holidays! Baby miss  fortune 06:04, 27 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of New Jersey-related deletion discussions. Happy holidays! Baby miss  fortune 06:04, 27 December 2017 (UTC)


 * Delete He was 39 when elected, there have been lots of members of congress younger than that, so if that makes him East Orange's second youngest mayor, the city has either very few mayors or they tend to be old. Either way this is an example of a totally non-notable person of a not truly major location, the type of local mayor that for some reason we have an excessive number of articles on for New Jersey.John Pack Lambert (talk) 06:08, 27 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete - As noted by nominator, it clearly fails WP:POLITICIAN. There's nothing in the article to suggest encyclopedic notability otherwise. If the mayor of every town in America got a Wiki page, that'd be a whole lot of unnecessary BLPs to deal with. Shelbystripes (talk)
 * Notability is not the threshold for inclusion on Wikipedia, especially for mayors who are always part of a larger topic known to be notable, and thus ATD always prevails over DEL8. Unscintillating (talk) 02:46, 1 January 2018 (UTC)


 * Delete - Could not find significant coverage in multiple reliable sources. Fails WP:POLITICIAN. ~Kvng (talk) 16:30, 27 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete - fails WP:NPOL, and I can't find any other sources on a cursory search. -- Ajraddatz (talk) 03:19, 28 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep Popularly elected mayors of towns of size 64,000 are well into the range of mayors presumed notable solely because of the importance of their position.  For mayors, ATD prevails over DEL8, so WP:V and WP:DUE are the controlling policies for inclusion.  Alternatives here include East Orange, New Jersey, Mayors of East Orange, New Jersey, and History of East Orange, New Jersey.  As for whether this topic is notable=standalone, I'd rather it be merged, but the decision makers for non-deletion notability are the content contributors, who often prefer the organizational simplicity of a standalone article, and the normal process of such content decision-making is paralyzed during AfD.  This is a common tension in deletion discussions where AfD nominators claim the right to be absentee landlords so as to tell the content contributors not to make standalone articles, but are not willing themselves to participate in the hands-on decision making and on the talk pages of the articles.  Unscintillating (talk) 02:46, 1 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete - Can't say he meets any of the points outlined by WP:NPOL. Honestly, the only thing that applies to him is this: "Just being an elected local official, or an unelected candidate for political office, does not guarantee notability".TheGracefulSlick (talk) 05:18, 1 January 2018 (UTC)


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