Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Meir Lichtenstein


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The result was delete. MER-C 11:20, 17 May 2020 (UTC)

Meir Lichtenstein

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Non-notable mayor who does not meet WP:NPOL guidelines, was mayor for one year. Rusf10 (talk) 14:57, 9 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Rusf10 (talk) 14:57, 9 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of New Jersey-related deletion discussions. Rusf10 (talk) 14:57, 9 May 2020 (UTC)


 * Delete. Lakewood Township NJ is not a significant enough place to clinch the "inherent" notability of its mayors just for existing as mayors, but there's nothing here that's relevant to actually getting him over the notability test that mayors actually have to clear. For starters, the most solid source in the article explicitly reveals that Lakewood is a place where the mayoralty rotates annually among the municipal councillors, rather than being directly elected by the general public — and for another, the key to mayoral notability requires the ability to write and reliably source a genuinely substantive article about his political impact. But of the nine footnotes here, five are the county's own self-published tables of election results and one is the municipal government's own website — so six of the nine footnotes are primary sources which are not support for notability at all. And of the three that are media, there's one that just briefly namechecks his existence as a coda at the very end of an article whose primary subject is someone else, and one that's completely not as advertised — it does not link to a "front-page article in The Forward that profiles Mayor Lichtenstein", but to an article about a one-man theatre show in San Francisco by an actor named Josh Kornbluth. And the one genuinely strong source is from Ocean County's community hyperlocal, which means it isn't enough coverage to get him over the bar all by itself — and even if the Josh Kornbluth article is just a bad link and an article about Meir Lichtenstein in The Forward can actually be recovered just by fixing it, that still won't be enough, because GNG is not just "count the footnotes and keep anybody who gets to two". Bearcat (talk) 17:36, 9 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete a non-notable mayor of a place that does not actually have much notability. Figurehead mayors do not generally pass the notability test. Even in places where they are directly elected, even more so when it is a rotational figureheadness.John Pack Lambert (talk) 14:09, 13 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete Usual practice for determining notability of mayors is if the place in question is of sufficient notability, which Lakewood Township, New Jersey isn't. There are no other additional things Lichtenstein seems to have done for him to pass any other notability criteria. PoliceSheep99 (talk) 21:47, 15 May 2020 (UTC)


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