Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of highest paid mayors (2nd nomination)


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The result was delete.  A  Train talk 07:56, 31 May 2018 (UTC)

List of highest paid mayors

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This is an absurdly incomplete list. It's very problematic that a number of individuals and cities are being described as having the highest salaries when there is no sourcing or comprehensive list to actually verify that the individuals in the top five actually have the highest salaries in the world. The only reason why Iceland has six of the top 20 highest paid mayors in the world is simply that editors from bothered to edit this page while editors from other countries have not. I don't know if this is right, but surely this page skirts WP:NPOV by giving such a misleading and incomplete portrait of mayoral salaries. Snooganssnoogans (talk) 00:19, 24 May 2018 (UTC)

*comment- is incomplete yes, but the highest is in it, but data is woefully wrong, for political office holders from Singapore, they do not get the mayor pay but the office pay which is even highest. and that's good. passing remark, not voting on this --Quek157 (talk) 23:43, 24 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep because the topic is notable, as a quick google search reveals. However, all the points against this article Snooganssnoogans bought up are correct, this article is very problematic. I suggest that the article be separated by country, so that Icelandic and American mayors be listed in a different section so there is no confusion. When data from different countries come, they would go in a separate graph. We could even rename the article list of highest-paid mayors by country. Emass100 (talk) 21:28, 24 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete this is both WP:SYNTH (as the "highest-paid" is compiled from a lot of individual salary information, and is certainly incomplete), and trivia. Wikipedia is generally not a directory of people's salaries. power~enwiki ( π,  ν ) 02:15, 25 May 2018 (UTC)
 * delete per synth and my previous concerns about incorrect data. per not indiscrimate also.Quek157 (talk) 08:24, 25 May 2018 (UTC)
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 * Delete per WP:SYNTH. Wikipedia is not a book of world records, and it certainly shouldn't be a used to publish rankings established through the original research of Wikipedia editors. Pburka (talk) 14:55, 25 May 2018 (UTC)


 * Comment This article is not a WP:SYNTH because this subject of the highest wage of mayors is often discussed in reliable sources, as revieled by a quick google search. what makes it appear to be WP:SYNTH is the way the information is presented, but this can be changed; is not a reason for deletion when the overall theme of the article easily meets the WP:GNG. Emass100 (talk) 16:23, 25 May 2018 (UTC)
 * I linkede this discussion on the article resue squadron to help make those changes necessary for4 this article to be kept. Emass100 (talk) 05:27, 26 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:SYNTH unless someone finds a complete and reliable list published somewhere and refers to it. If only some cities are included in the list and individual references are used, than this is certainly original research and should not be here. Gianvito Scaringi (talk) 16:41, 25 May 2018 (UTC)


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 * I think the articles for each city should have the mayor's salary listed, that telling you something about how the city is run, and reliable sources do cover this. Having an article for each nation for comparison might make sense, but comparing different nations that use different currencies with no information about what the cost of living is in each one, seems like it might be misleading.  This article doesn't list when the information was updated for each entry either.   D r e a m Focus  17:02, 25 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete per nominator and other comments suggesting WP:SYNTH. This article would not be manageable otherwise given the currencies differ in other countries and the fact remuneration changes almost annually in many cities. Ajf773 (talk) 22:55, 25 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete Pending some evidence of sources actually listing highest-paid mayors in order; the sources currently cited in the article appear to simply be used to verify individual salaries, not where said salaries fall in the "list", which is an OR nightmare. Additionally, since the list will never be comprehensive, assuming the ones whose salaries can be verified are the highest-paid in the world is probably somewhat WP:SYSTEMIC: surely mayors in countries with lax corruption legislation are by definition higher paid (if not higher salaried) than most of those listed. Hijiri 88 ( 聖やや ) 05:36, 26 May 2018 (UTC)
 * As a Singaporean, I can attest to the salaries of Singapore not being OR, but fact. But my previous concerns of inaccuracies are still there, as clearly Dr Maliki, being a SMS will hold SMS pay not mayor pay, whosoever did this list must be wrongly interpreting salaries. OR/SYNTH in general. --Quek157 (talk) 11:09, 26 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Even if individual salaries are accurate and sourced -- actually even if all the cited salaries are accurate and sourced -- it is still OR to place them in order in a list of "the highest paid mayors" as there are thousands, if not tens of thousands, of other mayors whose salaries were not checked. The only way this could not be OR would be if an external source actually listed all these mayors' salaries in order. Hijiri 88 ( 聖やや ) 11:52, 26 May 2018 (UTC)
 * yes, do read, I said OR/SYNTH in general Quek157 (talk) 11:53, 26 May 2018 (UTC)


 * Delete On notability and synth grounds. This article is a dubious collation of information, and Wiki is not a repository for unofficial ranking charts. doktorb wordsdeeds 06:35, 30 May 2018 (UTC)


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