Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lizette Parker (2nd nomination)


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was keep. Spartaz Humbug! 09:16, 12 May 2018 (UTC)

Lizette Parker
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Fails WP:POLITICIAN. The sourcing is very weak and relies on obituaries in local newspapers. The result of the previous discussion was "no consensus". The keep arguments were based on the fact that she was Teaneck's first african-american mayor. I do not believe that being the first mayor of any race in a particular town is notable by itself. If she were the first african-american mayor anywhere in the state, then yes (but she is not). It also should be mentioned that Teaneck does not directly elect its mayors, they are appointed by the council among its members. Rusf10 (talk) 22:42, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Her death was reported by the Associated Press, an international organization. --RAN (talk) 16:14, 6 May 2018 (UTC)


 * Keep One of the first African American females to serve as mayor in the US, died in office, plenty of coverage. You brought this article to AfD a mere six months ago and it was kept, so what exactly is the idea? You're going to keep nominating it until you're successful? Enigmamsg 04:25, 1 May 2018 (UTC)
 * 1. She was not the first african-american female mayor in the United States or even New Jersey Unless you are suggesting that her race and gender create automatic notability (which to my knowledge they do not) 2. The result of previous discussion was not keep, it was "no consensus". Six months is more than a reasonable amount of time to revisit a "no consensus" discussion.--Rusf10 (talk) 15:29, 1 May 2018 (UTC)
 * I didn't say she was the first. Enigmamsg 16:06, 1 May 2018 (UTC)
 * She wasn't even "one of the first". And incidentally, relisting a page for another discussion after a few months is an entirely appropriate response to a "no consensus" closure — it's not malfeasance, but standard practice to revisit discussions that didn't close with a clear keep or delete the first time. Bearcat (talk) 16:37, 1 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions.  MT Train Talk 05:46, 1 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of New Jersey-related deletion discussions.  MT Train Talk 05:46, 1 May 2018 (UTC)


 * Delete. She was not one of the first African American women to serve as mayor in the US — holy hell, she wasn't even close to that — or even in her own state; the article's only claim is that she was the first African American woman mayor in her own county. But a historic distinction that's limited to her own county is not a notability freebie — every place that has mayors at all will always eventually have its own local "first member of X group" mayor for virtually every possible value of X, so that isn't a magic notability bullet if the historicity of the distinction doesn't break wider than just her own local area. She would have to be reliably sourceable as significantly more notable than most other smalltown mayors — which the sourcing here is not showing, as it's limited almost entirely to the routine obituaries in her own local media that every mayor of everywhere could always show when they die. The only very slight evidence of beyond-local notability here is the fact that one citation is to The Root, a more widely-distributed and widely-read publication — but even that citation is just a short blurb, not genuinely substantive coverage, so it's not a magic GNG pass all by itself. Bearcat (talk) 16:37, 1 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Her death was reported by the Associated Press, an international organization. --RAN (talk) 16:14, 6 May 2018 (UTC)
 * If the Associated Press had devoted ongoing coverage to her political career while she was alive, that would be evidence of notability — but smalltown political figures do not instantly clear the extralocal coverage condition the very moment one piece of more than local coverage exists. It still takes evidence of ongoing nationalized media attention, not just a single shot of WP:BIO1E juice. Bearcat (talk) 14:33, 7 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Your argument would make sense only if you could show me that the AP gave obituaries to every other mayor who died in the United States over the past 50 years. WP:GNG makes no distinction between biographies and obituaries. --RAN (talk) 18:59, 8 May 2018 (UTC)


 * Keep - There is no need for her to be more notable than anyone else. The article passes WP:V, WP:NPOV, and WP:NOR quite easily. There are multiple reliable sources which cover the subject, so WP:42/WP:GNG seems to me to be satisfied, and the tone and material seems encyclopedic to me. Smmurphy(Talk) 21:59, 1 May 2018 (UTC)
 * If the volume of sourcing shown here is enough to make Parker notable, then every single person who's ever been mayor of anywhere at all is equally notable — because in the entire sweep of human history, not one single solitary mayor of anywhere has ever lacked for every bit as much or more sourceability as this. Mayors of towns this size are not all deemed automatically notable just for existing, however — and if a class of topic is not "inherently" notable, then getting a member of that class of topic in the door most definitely does require evidence that she's significantly more notable than the her other peers that we aren't accepting as notable. I am 100 per cent correct about how wikinotability works for smalltown mayors — it is not "some local media coverage of her exists", because every mayor of everywhere can always say the same. It is a question of whether or not she can be shown as significantly more notable than most other smalltown mayors, by virtue of being sourceable to more coverage than most other smalltown mayors get. If this amount of coverage is enough to make Parker notable, then there's no such thing as a non-notable mayor at all anymore, because there's never been a single mayor of anywhere who couldn't show as much sourcing as this.

Bearcat (talk) 01:47, 2 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Her death was reported by the Associated Press, an international organization. If Bearcat gets an obit by the Associated Press, I will write their Wikipedia entry myself. --RAN (talk) 16:15, 6 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your response. I don't really have a problem with nearly all mayors being includable in the encyclopedia, given they satisfy WP:CCPOL and the article satisfies WP:NOTPROMO, WP:NOTDIR, WP:NOTMEMORIAL, etc. For me, I would be ambivalent about a living politician with only local coverage because of those two sections of NOT. But when a person is passed, I'm less concerned about restricting our definition of encyclopedic based on the population of a persons city or the circulation of the paper used as a source (assuming the paper is likely RS). CCPOL and NOT strike me as a decent enough guides in these cases. If one too many pokemon critters or minor league shortstops or small town politicians have an article, well WP:NOTPAPER. I understand that the consensus view, which you may well be 100 per cent correct about, is more restrictive than this, so I don't !vote on every case. But I did !vote on this one because I do think she is a suitable subject for an article. Smmurphy(Talk) 02:25, 2 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia keeping an article about every single mayor who ever mayored in all of human history would be absolutely unsustainable and umaintainable — even with "inherent" NPOL notability restricted to state or national legislators, we still aren't doing a very good job of actually keeping those articles clean and current and well-sourced, let alone adding thousands more people to the "inherently notable" queue for politicians. So the rule for mayors has always been, and should rightly continue to be, that they are notable enough for articles only if they can demonstrate a credible claim to their mayoralties having notability beyond just the bounds of their own local area — i.e. major cities whose politics are demonstrably of broad reader interest, and maybe the odd smalltown mayor here and there who can be especially well-sourced to much more than just routine local obituaries. That's not what the sources here are demonstrating, however. Bearcat (talk) 17:56, 3 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks again for your point. To me, the concern that leniency in classifying a subject as suitable for an article will lead to an unsustainable number of articles is a concern about a hypothetical issue - we simply don't have a problem with too many local interest articles at wikipedia. I remember when wikipedia included unsourced technical specifications about tech hardware and an articles about every pokemon critter. There were users enough interested in these things that the articles were more or less NPOV and factually correct (or fictionally as the case may be). They did fail NOR and V and parts of NOT and have since been deleted or re-worked. This page on Parker didn't have vandalism (no vandalism in 2 years and 1,800 page views since creation), V, NPOV, or NOR problems prior to the AfD. Being open to including local public figures can lead to abuse; and certainly does when we see articles about candidates and politicians (issues about whitewashing pages about people, especially living ones, have been discussed - see Twitter:congressedits). Its existence is evidence that we have users enough to support such articles. We don't have a great backlog at unreferenced BLP (Category:Unreferenced BLPs). Our NPOV backlog underestimates the problem, but it is also reasonable (Category:NPOV disputes). As I said before, you may be right about what the rule for mayors has always been and should continue to be, and I don't weigh in on every case. But I did weigh in on this one because I see her case as especially reasonable (Category:NPOV disputes). Note that we do have difficult to handle backlogs at NPP/AFC, and we have had some research into the issue and proposed solutions (meta:Research:Autoconfirmed article creation trial).
 * To address the question by SportingFlyer below, which I interpret as a request for more particular detail explaining keep !votes, beyond satisfying V/NPOV/NOR, I think that the headlines of obituaries of her call her "History making" and "groundbreaking" are good indicators of suitability - a point that Bearcat and RAN argued about at the last AfD (which had at least one SP !vote keep). I would reconsider my !vote if it were clear that those obituary headlines were not independent of the subject, for instance. Smmurphy(Talk) 21:56, 3 May 2018 (UTC)
 * If (and that's a big if) it's true that we don't have a huge problem with too many local interest articles as Wikipedia, it certainly isn't that people aren't trying to flood Wikipedia with local interest articles — they are, and constantly at that — it's that we normally delete them when they come to AFD. On any given day, however, AFD is literally flooded with discussions about people, places and things that have no substantively extralocal claim of notability at all: smalltown mayors, city councillors, library and parks and transportation and school board members, residential cul-de-sacs and side streets, restaurants, furniture stores, winners of high school poetry contests, bands who have never accomplished anything more than playing their local pub twice, single-station local radio and television personalities, fire and police chiefs, and on and so forth, are things that people try to create Wikipedia articles about all the time. So it's far from a hypothetical issue — it's a real issue that already happens far, far more than it's supposed to. Bearcat (talk) 22:00, 3 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Sorry for the slow response. You asked if we have a problem with too many local interest articles being created. I'm particularly interested in biographies, and think given the discussion so far, it would be ok to focus on politicians. In AfDs created during March 2018, I count 62 AfDs deletion-sorted into Politicians-related deletion discussions which were deleted (70%), 16 which were kept (18%), and 4 which were closed without consensus (4.5%), 5 with redirect (5.6%), 2 withdrawn (2.2%), and 0 with merge or other results (89 total articles, some of the deleted AfDs were multiple article AfDs, none of the kepts or no consensues were). That is a bit under 3 AfDs per day. Since politicians were included as a sorting category in 2008, I count 3,356 such articles were closed as delete (60%), 1,263 as keep (22%), 319 as no consensus (6%) (other outcomes exist as well, of course, see WikiProject Deletion sorting/Politicians/archive). The months with the most submissions were October 2016 with 95, July 2014 with 92, and March 2018 with 89. Over the past few years the total number of submissions per year has been growing slowly, with 799 last year (also a bit under 3 per day). This may seem like a flood, but the rate has been above 1 per day since 2010 and there hasn't, to my mind, been a great jump in the rate. Personally, I do not think 2 to 3 per day on average is a flood. I also think a deletion rate of 60% to 70% for these types of articles is a rate consistent with a large proportion of these types of articles being submitted in good faith as an attempt to add encyclopedic content to wikipedia. Full disclosure, I !voted at three of these, !voting keep on all three, contributing to two of them, and all three were kept. Bearcat, you !voted on nearly all of them - I did not count how often you !voted which way. For comparison, looking at articles deletion-sorted into bands and musicians, 4139 out of 22149 (18.7%) have been kept since that sorting started in September 2007 and about 5.6 articles are submitted per day sorted into that category. I rarely !vote on articles in that category. I agree that in total, there is a flood of articles submitted to AfD (between 50 and 100 most days, I think), and a majority of articles are and should be deleted (I don't pile on with my !votes so I skip a lot of clear deletes, but I still !vote delete about 50% of the time). I apologize that this comment is so off-topic and, as before, welcome follow ups not about Parker to continue elsewhere. Smmurphy(Talk) 17:38, 7 May 2018 (UTC)
 * The issue I have with the obituaries calling her "historical" or "groundbreaking?" There's no other reliable sources I can find which discuss this fact during her life! She is notable at best for being a small-town mayor who died in office. Based on the available sourcing, this is going to be kept or no-contested because she died. I'm really fascinated by this AfD for this precise reason, since this means you could argue anyone who had an independently written obituary could pass WP:GNG. SportingFlyer  talk  01:52, 4 May 2018 (UTC)
 * I think this (or these) trains of thought have gotten a bit off track for this AfD. Feel free to disagree, but if anyone wants to continue a conversation on these lines, I think we should do so elsewhere. I'd be happy to discuss at my talk page, or (if pinged) somewhere else appropriate. Thanks again for your thoughts and insights. Smmurphy(Talk) 04:57, 4 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately, I do still disagree: whether obituaries make someone notable in the absence of other sources is the key issue here. SportingFlyer  talk  05:06, 4 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Then lobby to have those changes incorporated into WP:GNG instead of making ad hoc arguments at each entry. --RAN (talk) 03:40, 10 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Women-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 23:40, 1 May 2018 (UTC)
 * You wrote: "then every single person who's ever been mayor of anywhere at all is equally notable" that is a good argument that mayors have inherent notability, maybe they should all have articles. However, if you can only write a paragraph, we bundle those short biographies into lists. See Mayors of Teaneck, New_Jersey. --RAN (talk) 02:23, 3 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Lists of politicians on Wikipedia are not expanded into extended biographical dictionaries of all the list entries. If a person does not qualify to have their own biographical article about them stand alone as its own independent article, then they do not qualify to have the equivalent of a full biographical article about them pasted into a list in lieu of an independent article either. And no, mayors should not all have articles, either — a mayor's notability should remain dependent on whether their mayoralty is the subject of wider reader and source interest beyond just their own hometown, because Wikipedia keeping an article about every person who was ever mayor of anywhere would be an utterly unsustainable endeavour. We're not even doing an adequate job of properly maintaining the politicians we already accept as "inherently" notable now, let alone adding hundreds of thousands more people to that bucket. Bearcat (talk) 17:56, 3 May 2018 (UTC)

Of course, the above claim contravenes policy which states''no rule which establishes that someone who is potentially not notable enough to warrant their own article can never be covered with regard to their biographical details in any article. Nor is there even a presumption that any details pertaining to them should not be covered if they fail GNG or NWHATEVER.'' and WP:AVOIDSPLIT which says: "If only a few sentences could be written and supported by sources about the subject, that subject does not qualify for a separate article, but should instead be merged into an article about a larger topic or relevant list. It is not uncommon for editors to suggest that articles nominated for deletion instead be merged into a parent article. Note that notability guidelines only outline how suitable a topic is for its own article or list. They do not limit the content of an article or list."Djflem (talk) 10:42, 10 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:NPOL and WP:GNG as not independently notable other than being a politician. The only sources are either obituary pieces or relate to her election. Only her death seems to have generated a lot of coverage, which makes sense as it's somewhat rare for a mayor to die in office, but I also think there's a WP:NOTNEWS issue with that. SportingFlyer  talk  03:09, 2 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep per WP:GNG and . Hmlarson (talk) 05:15, 2 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep passes GNG. That's all we need to show. Megalibrarygirl (talk) 21:52, 2 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep Still meets WP:GNG. --RAN (talk) 23:47, 2 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep Seems to meet GNG if not NPOL perhaps. ~ EDDY  ( talk / contribs )~ 23:52, 2 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep Meets GNG. Sufficient coverage. Husounde (talk) 00:54, 3 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Comment That's five Keep votes in a row saying she passes WP:GNG without any discussion as to why. I know we're heading to a keep or a no consensus, but would someone please explain to me why she passes WP:GNG? I'm actually interested as an AfD voter as to what I'm missing. Almost everything I can find about her relates to her untimely passing. All of the links on her page reference her obituary except one, and that one is a dead link. The articles I can find that mention her work are not about her, but mention her in passing. Why does this pass WP:GNG? SportingFlyer  talk  01:53, 3 May 2018 (UTC)
 * WP:GNG: "If a topic has received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject, it is presumed to be suitable for a stand-alone article". The guideline makes no distinction between biographies and obituaries. There is nothing in the wording constraining the geographic circulation of the reliable source, as if there was such a thing, since we now distribute media through the Internet. --RAN (talk) 02:18, 3 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Thank you. The problem here is the obituaries are actually trivial. The Nj.com article is only eight sentences long. The Root and New York Post articles are even shorter. There's a good article about her funeral, granted. Obituaries cannot on their own establish notability: everyone dies, and even though a number of local papers picked up a four- or five-sentence article about her death, there's really no coverage of her being notable in her life in a way that would satisfy either WP:NPOL or WP:GNG. SportingFlyer  talk  02:45, 3 May 2018 (UTC)
 * I do not see a trivia exclusion in the guideline, only a requirement for "significant coverage", which is clearly defined in the guideline. "Everyone dies" but not everyone gets an obituary, you are confusing a paid funeral notice with an obituary. Some papers do obits for prominent local citizens, but that would be one reference. The GNG requires multiple ones, Lizette Parker has met that requirement. --RAN (talk) 03:36, 3 May 2018 (UTC)
 * It's not significant coverage, though. Multiple papers ran trivial obituaries, including the ones linked in the article as it stands. Trivial coverage is the opposite of significant coverage. SportingFlyer  talk  03:39, 3 May 2018 (UTC)


 * "Significant coverage" addresses the topic directly and in detail, so that no original research is needed to extract the content." every fact is referenced, please point out the original research. --RAN (talk) 13:45, 3 May 2018 (UTC)
 * From WP:BASIC"If the depth of coverage in any given source is not substantial, then multiple independent sources may be combined to demonstrate notability; trivial coverage of a subject by secondary sources may not be sufficient to establish notability" (emphasis mine)--Rusf10 (talk) 04:33, 3 May 2018 (UTC)
 * "Significant coverage" is well defined and objective, "trivial coverage" is left undefined and subjective, which is why you get to use it in almost every argument for deletion. --RAN (talk) 13:48, 3 May 2018 (UTC)
 * This is going off the rails as an argument. All we have here are eight-sentence obituaries which got picked up by a smattering of local media. While multiple newspapers ran with it, it's effectively one source, though voters are claiming it's "sufficient" or "significant coverage." Significant coverage also only presumes notability. To me, someone who died who would not otherwise pass WP:GNG or WP:NPOL doesn't get that presumption, even assuming the coverage is significant. Also, a couple interesting reads on obituary notability:  It's frustrating to me everyone's assuming she passes WP:GNG when there's a larger argument to make here. SportingFlyer  talk  15:01, 3 May 2018 (UTC)


 * "Effectively one source" is not one source, again subjective. Showing that they have the same exact wording would prove they are one source, which would be objective, and easy to prove. If a bot can do it, it is objective. If only a human can discern something that is "effectively" or "almost" then you might as well not bring it up. --RAN (talk) 00:28, 4 May 2018 (UTC)
 * All of the reliable BEFORE sources directly relate to the fact she passed away and except for the long-form story about her funeral are very short, very similar articles. How are those multiple sources? That's all we have to go on! SportingFlyer  talk  01:52, 4 May 2018 (UTC)
 * "Very similar" does not mean identical, see above argument. All the biographies I have read on Abraham Lincoln are disturbingly similar, they discuss his parents and his birth, his law school education, his marriage, the civil war, and his assassination. They are all very eerily similar, and they all curiously put the facts in the same exact order. Someone should look into this. --RAN (talk) 14:58, 5 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Comparing a small town mayor to the president of the United States is like comparing apples to oranges. Unlike Parker, Lincoln already had plenty written about him before he died.--Rusf10 (talk) 01:54, 12 May 2018 (UTC)


 * Keep Meets GNG. Sufficient coverage. Djflem (talk) 13:23, 3 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep More than meets coverage and GNG given her status as the first female African-American mayor in NJ's largest, most populous county (Bergen), as well as Teaneck. Long-term, if we had more of a mix of editors - for example more African-American editors or editors with a firm interest in state & municipal government - these kinds of potential deletions would become rarer. Scanlan (talk) 12:52, 5 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep meets WP:GNG.  Second nomination by Rusf10 in such a short time seems a bit WP:POINTy, although I confess to not seeing what the POINT is in trying, twice, to delete a solidly-sourced article with SIGCOV of this life and career.E.M.Gregory (talk) 15:14, 6 May 2018 (UTC)
 * What the hell is wrong with you? I already explained above the previous discussion was closed "No consensus". Six months is more than a reasonable amount of time to revisit. All you do here is follow me around anyway.--Rusf10 (talk) 17:15, 6 May 2018 (UTC)
 * I do a lot of AfDs.E.M.Gregory (talk) 11:11, 7 May 2018 (UTC)


 * Delete The keep votes are majory misinterpreting GNG. She recieved routine coverage in her local area, nothing more. For a politician this is a clear fail of GNG.John Pack Lambert (talk) 01:13, 8 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Considered to be routine: "Wedding announcements, sports scores, crime logs ... sports matches, film premieres, press conferences etc." I think you are the one "majory [sic] misinterpreting" the guideline. When an editor just points to a guideline without quoting from it, it usually means they have not read it, just memorized the acronym. Please do not argue that all mentions of Lizette Parker are covered by the "etc." Then I will have to argue that "etc." could mean information on popes and presidents. --RAN (talk) 04:36, 8 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Eight-sentence obituaries are the definition of routine. SportingFlyer  talk  05:00, 8 May 2018 (UTC)
 * By all means lobby to have the definition changed so that it includes the eight-sentence rule. 8 (sentences) x 19 (references) = 152 (sentences, if they all were 8 sentences). The first AP obit I got on my phone for Barbara Bush was just 6 sentences, followed by a much longer one an hour later. Lizette Parker had 8 sentences, followed by longer ones for her funeral. --RAN (talk) 18:51, 8 May 2018 (UTC)


 * False claim, see AUD: The source's audience must also be considered. Evidence of significant coverage by international or national, or at least regional, media is a strong indication of notability. On the other hand, attention solely from local media, or media of limited interest and circulation, is not an indication of notability; at least one regional, statewide, provincial, national, or international source is necessary. Clearly more than "at least one", with much regional and national coverage.Djflem (talk) 15:27, 11 May 2018 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Keep as she meets the WP:GNG. I am open to all options with relisting so was curious as to the reason for the relist after 6 months. This is short. Was disappointed that nominator did not provide a good reason and instead claimed it isn't short. gidonb (talk) 06:17, 8 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete. I came here to close this AfD and, given all the "keep" !votes expected to close accordingly. However, after reading through the arguments espoused above and perusing the sources, I changed my mind. The "delete" !votes have much stronger policy-based arguments. In my opinion, this bio does not meet GNG or any other guideline. The coverage is local and routine and what you would expect for any mayor, especially one who tragically dies at a young age. Given the preponderance of "keep" !votes, that seem mostly based on the subject meriting an article (but "merit" is not a notability criterion), I decided not to close this debate (while within discretion, a delete close would certainly have ended up at DRV and cause unnecessary drama), but to !vote myself instead. --Randykitty (talk) 14:50, 8 May 2018 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Kirbanzo (talk) 15:01, 8 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete. The coverage of the subject is the definition of local and routine. WP:N demands "significant attention by the world at large and over a period of time", and the sourcing here fails to achieve that. An obituary is simply not enough to push this over the line. &spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 15:13, 8 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Speedily Keep as per WP:DGFA. This is another "I have the right to nominate articles on New Jersey and nearby states" nomination.192.160.216.52 (talk) 17:11, 8 May 2018 (UTC)
 * I hope that you realize that a cryptic !vote like this is bound to be ignored by the closing admin... --Randykitty (talk) 17:20, 8 May 2018 (UTC)
 * In fact, this IP made a policy-based argument (then got cryptic).E.M.Gregory (talk) 18:22, 8 May 2018 (UTC)
 * This surely will be ignored by the admin as it has been every time Unscintillating has used it in the past, see Sockpuppet investigations/Unscintillating--Rusf10 (talk) 01:50, 12 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Responding to RandyKitty's iVote (just above the relist) I note that it is not routine to have a black, female Mayor of an upscale, majority white New Jersey suburb, and nor is it routine for a mayor to die in her early forties while in office, which may explain why the was an AP story about her death  ran in The Root (magazine), a national black publication, and  the New York Post, a paper not known for deigning to cover routine events in the Jersey 'burbs.  Judgement on what passes GNG  varies, of course, but the coverage here seems to me to meet WP:SIGCOV by extending over many years, being regional and national as well as local, and with detailed coverage of subjects life and political career.E.M.Gregory (talk) 18:22, 8 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Stop trying to carve out special criteria. If we were to take just take the category mayors who die in office, it probably has very few members, but that doesn't make someone notable just because they died in office. Also nearly 30% of Teaneck is black, a fact you obviously didn't know.--Rusf10 (talk) 19:36, 8 May 2018 (UTC)
 * One also acknowledges that in the NY metro area (which has 100s of municipalities) or nationally, not all mayors who die in office, who are women, who are black get extensive news coverage from flagship stations of national networks such as Parker did on WABC-TV, WCBS-TV, WNBC & the previously mentioned AP Djflem (talk) 11:29, 9 May 2018 (UTC)
 * It's local news, she died in office, not that many mayors die in office, so it gets covered. However, if someone is really notable why wouldn't they get extensive coverage during the time they were living?--Rusf10 (talk) 17:04, 9 May 2018 (UTC)
 * But of course those others who die in office are not often the first female African-American mayor in the state's largest, most populous county or of the municipality they represent.Djflem (talk) 10:19, 10 May 2018 (UTC)


 * WP:HEY (well, a small HEY) after listening to the arguments for deletion, I went again to look not just at the sources but for sources. Adding more coverage of her years as a member of the City Council, and more non-local coverage.E.M.Gregory (talk) 01:11, 9 May 2018 (UTC)
 * I'll be back to continue, but NOTE that this certainly passes WP:BASIC.E.M.Gregory (talk) 02:15, 9 May 2018 (UTC)
 * FYI: national radio stations syndicated story citing (bold mine)

"A mere two years after making history by becoming the first African American mayor of Teaneck, New Jersey, Lizette Parker has passed away."
 * https://magicbaltimore.com/3472805/morning-minute-ga-man-reportedly-shot-his-in-laws-because-his-wife-was-planning-to-file-for-divorce/ WWIN-FM (95.5 Majic), Baltimore
 * https://rickeysmileymorningshow.com/tag/lizette-parker/ Rickey Smiley Morning Show, WHTA (Hot 107.9), Atlanta
 * https://myhoustonmajic.com/author/ronemyhoustonmajic/page/548/ KMJQ, (Majic 102.1), Houston
 * https://kysdc.com/page/1433/?iframe=true&preview=true%2Ftag%2Fthe-dmv%2F WKYS (93.9 WKYS) Washington, D.C.
 * https://theboxhouston.com KRKF-LP (97.9 The Box), Houston/Corpus Christi
 * Don't think it's necessary to include these refs, unless someone would like to have the national coverage documented in article.Djflem (talk) 10:34, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

Question From POLOUTCOMES about notable firsts: an edit made 9 January 2016 by Bearcat which s/he has invoked on numerous occasions here and elsewhere. Unfortunately, there is no link to any RfDs which other editors can review, which would be appropriate since the comment about coverage (repeated by others) and the added guideline seems to originate from one person who is citing h/self. Are there such links, and can it be provided? Would be useful to those engaged in RdD discussions of this sort. Thanks.Djflem (talk) 11:02, 9 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete. Routine coverage in life and some coverage about the fact that you died don't make you notable. Niteshift36 (talk) 13:24, 9 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Not routine coverage: clearly fulfills AUD having been covered in local, statewide, regional, and national media.Djflem (talk) 14:59, 10 May 2018 (UTC)


 * Note that the question "Should local New Jersey political figures have biographical entries?" is one of the topics discussed in yesterday's Wall Street Journal. Here: The 15 People Who Keep Wikipedia’s Editors From Killing Each Other. E.M.Gregory (talk) 15:57, 9 May 2018 (UTC)
 * See you posted this in two places now, it has nothing to do with this discussion, see WP:NOTFORUM--Rusf10 (talk) 16:31, 9 May 2018 (UTC)
 * It is about the intensity of Wikipedia editing on topics that strike the Wall Street Journal as remarkable.  I noticed the article and mention it here because I, too, have found the intensity of editing on New Jersey politicians to be remarkable.  We should all be aware of the damage that our petty personal feuding does to the reputation of the project.E.M.Gregory (talk) 18:38, 9 May 2018 (UTC)


 * Keep Still notable.-- Dloh cier ekim  (talk) 18:57, 10 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Why? WP:Clearly notable--Rusf10 (talk) 01:47, 12 May 2018 (UTC)


 * Keep Still notable for reasons previously decided. Serial deletion requests are a waste of valuable editor time.  <b style="color:#060">7&amp;6=thirteen</b> (<b style="color:#000">☎</b>) 01:08, 12 May 2018 (UTC)
 * I think I've addressed this a least twice already, the previous close was "no consensus". Therefore, nothing was "decided"--Rusf10 (talk) 01:47, 12 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Meets WP:GNG at least. And still. Someone once offered a statement about the definition of insanity... I for one don't expect a different result.  <b style="color:#060">7&amp;6=thirteen</b> (<b style="color:#000">☎</b>) 02:20, 12 May 2018 (UTC)


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