Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Matthew Marchant


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The result was delete. Tone 17:52, 13 August 2019 (UTC)

Matthew Marchant

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Non-notable politician. Mayor of a small city in Texas, the state's 26th-most populous based on 2018 estimates does not meet WP:NPOL. Sourcing required to establish WP:GNG does not seem to exist. Being the son of somebody notable should not grant him an article per WP:NOTINHERITED. A redirect could be left to his father's article. – Muboshgu (talk) 17:46, 6 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. – Muboshgu (talk) 17:46, 6 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Texas-related deletion discussions. – Muboshgu (talk) 17:46, 6 August 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete - absolutely not notable per WP:NPOL, city is nowhere near large enough to qualify him as a mayor Nosebagbear (talk) 12:30, 7 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete. Carrollton is certainly a large enough city that a well-sourced and substantive article about a mayor could be kept, but it is not so large that the amount of sourcing shown here (two pieces of routine reportage of election results, one glancing namecheck of his existence in an article about somebody else, a blurb in a listicle about the winners of a minor local award that isn't a notability clincher in and of itself, and a primary source profile on the city government's own self-published website) would be enough to make him notable. The notability of a mayor is demonstrated by the ability to write and source a substantive article about his political career, not by the ability to locate the names of his wife and kids. Bearcat (talk) 17:36, 8 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete any city over 100,000 at least with a strong mayor the mayor has a clear potential to be notable. However we need strong sourcing, which is lacking in this case.John Pack Lambert (talk) 05:28, 9 August 2019 (UTC)


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