Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mayoral elections


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The result was Clusterfuck. This catastrophically huge nomination is so big that XfDcloser is having a seizure whilst trying to close it. No prejudice against speedy renomination individually or in smaller batches. As the removal of the AfD templates can't be done automatically by XfDcloser, I have asked the nominator to do it - no one else should have to spend their time cleaning up this mess. &spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 21:28, 23 April 2020 (UTC)

Mayoral elections


Per Articles for deletion/Chula Vista mayoral elections (an ongoing AfD), Articles for deletion/2004 Mesa mayoral election, and Articles for deletion/2018 Fontana mayoral election; these are all non-notable elections that mainly show the results and nothing else. It might be better to merge some of this information to other articles. Wow (talk) 20:03, 16 April 2020 (UTC)
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 * Keep Oakland, Sacramento, San Francisco, Oklahoma City as major cities likely to have further coverage. Delete or Redirect others to List of mayors of Boise, Idaho, List of mayors of St. Petersburg, Florida, List of mayors of Spokane, San_Bernardino,_California etc. Largely bulk-created using only primary source of results without discussion or significant coverage for notability; we are not Ballotpedia or OurCampaigns. Per WP:NOPAGE, can be covered in main articles/lists until separate page is warranted but data only does not justify standalone articles for small cities and suburbs with local-only news coverage. Reywas92Talk 21:01, 16 April 2020 (UTC)
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 * Speedy Keep per WP:TRAINWRECK and WP:NOTCLEANUP. The nomination proposes merger not deletion and doesn't seem to have done any detailed work on the specifics of each case. Andrew🐉(talk) 21:42, 16 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Comment Listing more articles to determine if they should be deleted, starting with Hartford. --Wow (talk) 22:06, 16 April 2020 (UTC)
 * In other words, "we need a bigger trainwreck"? SecretName101 (talk) 22:22, 16 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Good lord, you indeed made it even more of a trainwreck.SecretName101 (talk) 22:24, 16 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Procedural keep This is a clusterfuck. I count 271 articles you nominated in one AfD, even though these cities are not the same. It's a TRAINWRECK. Nominate one city at a time. – Muboshgu (talk) 22:49, 16 April 2020 (UTC)
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 * Keep - Too many to properly evaluate. These weren't mass created and are sufficiently different that they need to be broken down a bit more (arbitrarily, maybe a limit of 10 per nom). If you think the article format itself is flawed, you may want to consider an WP:RFC instead, but it's almost certainly going to result in "handle on a case by case basis, with no presumption of notability". &mdash; Rhododendrites  <sup style="font-size:80%;">talk \\ 23:57, 16 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Procedural keep per WP:TRAINWRECK. Iamreallygoodatcheckers (talk) 01:00, 17 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep- Does not appear a sufficient BEFORE has been conducted.Djflem (talk) 02:06, 17 April 2020 (UTC)
 * This is the second instance of poor judgement being practiced by Wow relating to election articles this week. Creating this particularly jaw-dropping mess of a trainwreck comes right after Wow removed transparent images that were being used to regulate the width of candidates on the infoboxes of hundreds of election articles, accrediting these actions to what amounted to a GROSS misinterpretation of a centralized discussion. It was time consuming on my part to undue all of that. Wow, please practice due-diligence before undertaking actions that prove a massive waste of other users' valuable time. As was just stated, you practiced none of BEFORE and also created massive trainwreck that, of course, was never going to result in anything productive. This is not how we undertake deletions. SecretName101 (talk) 02:40, 17 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Procedural Keep -- While I would tend to agree with the nominator for a decent number of these articles, comparing Green Bay to Sacramento to South Bend is too much of a leap for me. -- Dolotta (talk) 14:02, 17 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Snow procedural keep It is unreasonable to expect a consensus out of such a granular-level nomination--one editor counted 271 nominations from multiple cities and jurisdictions. I appreciate the editor making a WP:BOLD nomination yet I hope that rather than piling more on to this one that a more controlled approach is taken.  Heck, I might want to delete all of them... but in smaller, easier to manage bundles please.--Paul McDonald (talk) 14:31, 17 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Procedural Keep due to ridiculously large number of articles nominated. Coolabahapple (talk) 08:33, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Procedural keep Not a fan of these mass nominations. ~ EDDY  ( talk / contribs )~ 17:04, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep Major issues with mass nominations aside--there are far too many articles included here to properly evaluate--most of these are for mayoral elections in major American cities, making them fairly notable. It may be worthwhile to consider consolidation by city, at least for some of the smaller ones (outside of the 125-150 largest?), but I see no need to delete, especially en masse. ALPolitico (talk) 13:31, 19 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Procedural keep. Too many articles to evaluate this properly. -- <strong style="color:blue">Kinu <i style="color: red">t</i>/<i style="color:red">c</i> 07:25, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep There may be notable reasons to keep many (or some) of the articles. And, much of the content may be able to be merged into other articles. In general, though, I believe that mayoral campaigns, properly covered by reliable, independent news sources should have the presumption of notability by meeting WP:GNG. --Enos733 (talk) 15:53, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Procedural Keep There are to many disparate articles of differing levels of quality and detail to be handled as a mass AfD. Some of these are reasonable candidates for deletion but many aren't. A more thorough review per WP:BEFORE and a split by city may be the best way to proceed. Alansohn (talk) 20:29, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Procedural keep. This is unreasonable, bordering on abusive. There's no way we as a community can debate this in any way. Nominate again the worst offenders, and let's go from there. FWIW, I would keep the Buffalo articles, so don't bother re-nominating them. Bearian (talk) 03:06, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Procedural keep. Some of these might be salvageable, some might not, but with this many articles batched at once there's no easy way to tell one way or the other. One city = one batch. Bearcat (talk) 04:11, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Comment — There are also a ton of articles on gubernatorial elections which were created as substance-free WP:NOTSTATS violations and have remained that way. By dwelling on a particular office and not another, are we once again pushing an artificial pecking order? RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions  08:48, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Procedural keep: It's impractical to assess several hundred articles together like this. Even spending a minute skimming over each article would take around 4 hours, non-stop. These need to be nominated individually or in much smaller groups that only cover one city each. Rubbish computer (Talk: Contribs) 10:41, 22 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Procedural keep - WHOAAAAAAAAAAAA! JESUS CHRIST! Did you even check any of these, or are you just learning to bundle? 🌺Kori🌺  - ( @ ) 06:18, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Procedural keep Worth keeping procedurally, but also want to note most of these I would probably !vote keep on, if not merging them into a "Mayoral elections in Cityburg." It may actually be worth an RfC if you plan to nominate these individually, to determine where the line is. SportingFlyer  T · C  20:45, 23 April 2020 (UTC)


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