Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of mayors of Wasilla, Alaska


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The result was   merge to Wasilla, Alaska. –Juliancolton Talk  ·  Review  00:12, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

List of mayors of Wasilla, Alaska

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There is no reason to have lists of the mayors of every small town in America. Clearly, this list is part of a coatrack based around Sarah Palin, no effort has been made to be thorough, no sources are cited, and Vern E. Rupright's article was just deleted as non-notable. Beeblebrox (talk) 03:00, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep seems like a reasonable use for a list to me, and seems well-accepted on WP: List_of_mayors. JJL (talk) 03:02, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep. I'd also contest the deletion of Rupright under WP:POLITICIAN. I've cleaned the article up and referneced it; as JJL said such articles and lists are well accepted. Ironholds (talk) 04:21, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Merge to Wasilla, Alaska. The topic doesn't need it's own article, but the list would fit within the main article on the town. Zagalejo^^^ 05:41, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Merge to Wasilla. Apparently Wasilla has only been a city since the 70s, so this won't need to be broken out to its own article for a few centuries. Andrew Lenahan -  St ar bli nd  10:47, 22 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Merge with less than five mayors in its lifespan as a city, it can be easily merged to Wasilla, AK Sceptre (talk) 13:46, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Merge per Zag, Andrew and Sceptre. I'm sure that being starstruck by Sarah Palin had nothing to do with the creation of the article, but there's nothing that guarantees the existence of a list of mayors in any town.  Mandsford (talk) 15:04, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep per JJL and Ironholds. Also, per Ironholds, "I'd also contest the deletion of Rupright under WP:POLITICIAN." Thanks. Ism schism (talk) 19:23, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Merge per Sceptre. Sean MD80 talk 23:51, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure what you guys mean when you say you would contest the deletion of Rupright's article. Here is the ten day long conversation that went nowhere, take it to DRV if you wish. On another note, if there are no objections, if somebody wants to go ahead and merge the content to the main Wasilla article I'd gladly withdraw the nom. Beeblebrox (talk) 16:43, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Update The article for Mayor Verne E. Rupright (mentioned as part of the nominator's reasoning above) is at DRV, please see Deletion review/Log/2009 March 22. In addition, the other Wasilla mayor nominated for Afd, Articles for deletion/Dianne M. Keller (2nd nomination), was closed as speedy keep due to a previous keep decision. Thanks. Ism schism (talk) 17:16, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Merge per Zag, Andrew, Sceptre, etc. If every town with 10,000 people had a List of Mayors article, we'd be overloaded with lists of 99% non-notable people. That one person on the list became notable, later, changes nothing. Why don't we take the telephone directory of every place over 10,000 and make a list of everyone there, because chances are someone there is notable or will be later. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 21:26, 25 March 2009 (UTC)


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