Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mark Ryckman


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The result was delete. Tone 17:15, 23 February 2021 (UTC)

Mark Ryckman

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City manager of Corning (city), New York, population 11k. Most of the article is a close paraphrasing of, but wouldn't meet notability threshold even if rewritten. Local media coverage consists of quotes from him about various city projects. DanCherek (talk) 15:13, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. DanCherek (talk) 15:13, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of New York-related deletion discussions. DanCherek (talk) 15:13, 16 February 2021 (UTC)


 * Delete. Leaders of cities with such a small population are not presumed to be notable and do not pass WP:NPOL. No coverage I have seen shows that this person should be an exception. I found a lot of passing mentions in local papers (as would be expected for any local politician). - Tristan Surtel (talk) 16:06, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete. City manager is not an "inherently" notable role that guarantees an article under WP:NPOL, especially not in a city with a population of just 11K — I live in a city with a population 244 times the size of Corning, and our city managers have never had Wikipedia articles — but the article is not reliably sourced anywhere near well enough to deem Ryckman more special than the norm. Bearcat (talk) 07:30, 17 February 2021 (UTC)


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