Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of mayors of Rapid City, South Dakota


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The result was keep‎__EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__. (non-admin closure) voorts (talk/contributions) 02:15, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

List of mayors of Rapid City, South Dakota

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Fails WP:NLIST, almost exclusively unsourced list of non-notable mayors of fairly small city. AusLondonder (talk) 06:51, 11 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Politicians, Lists of people,  and United States of America. AusLondonder (talk) 06:51, 11 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Isn’t Rapid City capital of South Dakota, or biggest in the state, or something like that? Hyperbolick (talk)
 * No and no. Don't see the relevance of that to a mostly unsourced list of mostly non-notable people anyway. AusLondonder (talk) 07:41, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, The Herald (Benison) (talk) 08:28, 18 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of South Dakota-related deletion discussions.  WC  Quidditch   ☎   ✎  11:00, 11 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Delete per nomination. BottleOfChocolateMilk (talk) 02:40, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Keep Vialble list; none on list required be individually notably. Wikipedia:LISTCRITERIA and Wikipedia:CSC describe how the this list should be complete. City size doesn't matter. (Bit odd, nominator mentions it and then later calls it irrelevant, which is it?). Djflem (talk) 16:41, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Not sure where the snide comment comes from. What I was saying was not relevant was whether Rapid City was a capital. I disagree completely with your comment that city size doesn't matter. There are many tens of thousands of cities globally and unsourced lists of past mayors is not encyclopedic. What criteria of WP:CSC is met by this list? Every entry meets the notability criteria - no. Every entry in the list fails the notability criteria - Note that this criterion is never used for living people. Short, complete lists of every item that is verifiably a member of the group doesn't appear to apply, either. It notes that "The inclusion of items must be supported by reliable sources" AusLondonder (talk) 08:44, 18 March 2024 (UTC)
 * It was in reference to your dismissal of someone who was questioning the size of the city, which incidentally does not matter. Why wouldn't "Short, complete lists of every item that is verifiably a member of the group. These should only be created if a complete list is reasonably short (less than 32K)" apply? A complete list of historical data with clearly finite number is rightfully expected. You are welcome to add sources. Djflem (talk) 20:38, 18 March 2024 (UTC)
 *  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.


 * Keep Most of the list appears to be cited to verifiable sources (and those that are not could be deleted). This is a complete list of mayors (meeting WP:CSC). The size of the article makes it appropriate to be split from the main city page (WP:SPLIT). Size of city does not matter whether an article is kept. --Enos733 (talk) 17:36, 18 March 2024 (UTC)


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