Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of mayors of Davenport, Iowa


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The result was redirect to History of Davenport, Iowa. Secret account 02:11, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

List of mayors of Davenport, Iowa

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I live here and see no real need for this page and very few mayors listed even have a wiki page  C t j f 8 3  talk 20:34, 7 January 2008 (UTC) 
 * Weak keep Maybe it can be the foundation of a "History of Davenport, Iowa" page. Davenport is bigger than your average American town, and, like Sofa, Bulgaria, shares its name with a piece of living room furniture. Mandsford (talk) 00:23, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment It's Sofia, Bulgaria, isn't it? Marjaliisa (talk) 00:47, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep. Mayors are generally notable so a list of notable people is reasonable. Vegaswikian (talk) 20:29, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Move the list to Government of Davenport, Iowa, and add more information on how the city's government works. The list of mayors could certainly fit in such an article. --Iowahwyman (talk) 16:43, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,


 * Keep info, delete page - move the info to either the Davenport page, or the History of... page as suggested by Mandsford. A page just for the list of mayors seems somewhat excessive. - mattbuck 02:21, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Merge/Redirect to Davenport, Iowa which is only about 23K in size. The history section is actually already a bit large on that page. Its time to create a separate article, say, History of Davenport, Iowa, and when that happens, the list can follow it. Then the current History section can be knocked down to about three paragraphs. The history of any city of 100,000 people, and most that are smaller, is notable -- sources always exist, and hardly anybody wants to get rid of those articles. Noroton (talk) 03:41, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment I couldn't wait. I created History of Davenport, Iowa and added the list there. Noroton (talk) 04:23, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Change Redirect to History of Davenport, Iowa. Just to clarify my !vote. Noroton (talk) 18:37, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete, now that Noroton moved the body to History of Davenport, Iowa. &mdash;  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 06:12, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Unless there's an admin who really wants to do a history merge, we're kinda obligated to redirect at this point due to GFDL requirements of preserving authorship information. cab (talk) 07:51, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Another alternative, although I obviously don't favor it, would be to merge or delete the History of Davenport, Iowa article and do something else with this list. I don't favor that, but I don't feel so strongly about it that I'd fight it. Another editor has informed me of his objection. I'm trying to boldly create a solution that consensus finds acceptable. Noroton (talk) 18:37, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Like I've said, I don't have a problem with creating History of Davenport, Iowa, IF it contains more then the the history section of Davenport, Iowa, which right now it doesn't, other than this list that is up for deletion. I could sit for hours and hours at the library adding to the the "history of" page, but I'm not going to. This isn't Chicago or New York City where a separate "history of" page is needed  C t j f 8 3 talk 18:58, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Redirect to History of Davenport, Iowa. Punkmorten (talk) 16:48, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep - Although the individuals themselves may not meet WP:N enough to warrent their own Articles, The Office of Mayor is notable, and thus warrents a listing of whom has filled that office. Exit2DOS2000   •T•C•  07:46, 17 January 2008 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.