Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Marin County Board of Supervisors


 * 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 the article on the board, but not the individual board members, they will be merged into the first article. Sjakkalle (Check!)  09:31, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

Marin County Board of Supervisors

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Article about a non-notable board governing an unincorporated county in north California--news searches, etc. turn up no significant, independent coverage (although they are mentioned in terms of holding hearings and in connection with Barbara Boxer).

I'm also nominating the following articles about the individuals serving on the Board:
 * Harold C. Brown
 * Susan L. Adams
 * Judy Arnold
 * Charles McGlashan
 * Steve Kinsey (politician)

And finally, in the interest of full disclosure I'll mention that all of these articles were created by User:SuperSuperBoi, one of the many blocked socks of User:Qrc2006 that I've dealt with in my time here (see also Requests for checkuser/Case/Boomgaylove). jonny - m t  02:43, 2 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Keep; California counties have boards of supervisors. Marin County's gets about 35,000 Google hits.  The positions on these boards are elected, often subject to intense media coverage, and sometimes hotly contested.  Also try googling "County board of supervisors" and you'll see all the other counties -- Los Angeles, Ventura, Orange, Kern, -- these are quite notable organizations with considerable say in land use issues, planning, just about every aspect of county administration.  Information on these boards is easily verifiable, and reliable sources include the local government websites.  Antandrus  (talk) 02:52, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep the Board article and Delete the 5 articles about the individual Board members. The GoogleNews results cited by the nominator are in fact quite substantial, 505 hits. While most of the coverage there is not in-depth, it is certainly nontrivial. There are also 415 hits in GoogleBooks. Having taken a look at the article, it is clear that some POV clean-up is needed there. The individual articles about the 5 Board members, however, should be deleted, IMO. There is no evidence of substantial coverage of these people individually and local politicians at that level are rarely notable, per WP:POLITICIAN. Their names could be mentioned in the main Board article, which would be quite sufficient. Nsk92 (talk) 03:28, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep - county supervisor boards are a significant and notable governmental organization. No opinion on the individual board members --T-rex 00:24, 11 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete all except Marin County Board of Supervisors; merge this article into Marin County, California as there isn't much actually said in the article once the names and unsourced statements about the politics of the members are removed. I would not oppose a fully-fledged, standalone article on the governmental structure and history of Marin County, California, but, unfortunately, there is not enough here to start one. B.Wind (talk) 03:34, 11 July 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.