Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Members of the Cape Town City Council


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The result was   Delete the article. RightCowLeftCoast last comment reads like a delete and redirect, and consensus here agrees a merge is not applicable and this list fails policy. Secret account 02:30, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

Members of the Cape Town City Council

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A very out of date list of city councillors. The vast majority are redlinked, and some of the blue links are to irrelevant targets. Is Wikipedia the place for a council list, and if so, who is going to maintain it? Peridon (talk) 13:31, 11 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete. Unmaintained and apparently unmaintainable - the council consists of over 200 people, and there are frequent resignations, by-elections and so on. WP:NOTDIR. There don't seem to be any similar articles listing members for any other city councils. - htonl (talk) 14:01, 11 February 2013 (UTC)
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 * Delete per htonl. The members of the Council would not individually meet WP:Politician. There is an appropriate list of mayors.  Enos733 (talk) 19:54, 11 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Cape Town City Council; there is already an article of the organization. Although, I agree with others who have stated that the subjects have not shown individual notability per WP:POLITICIAN or WP:ANYBIO, that does not mean the list cannot be integrated into an existing article; plus redirects are cheaper than deletions ;-) .--RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 00:42, 12 February 2013 (UTC)
 * A simple redirect won't take people to information they might be seeking (which is probably available on the CTCC website anyway), and a merge of this stuff would be taking up a lot of space for currently out of date info - and would anyone bother updating it? We have Lists to take people to articles where there is a common factor. Virtually none of these names have or will have articles, and some are blue-linked wrongly. Peridon (talk) 11:48, 13 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Please see WP:NOTDIR. If the individual council members are notable per WP:POLITICIAN or WP:ANYBIO, there can be a list of them in the article about the council (which would like to their individual articles), however per POLITICIAN, each member of the council is not automatically notable, so a list about those individuals is not automaticably notable.--RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 18:58, 14 February 2013 (UTC)
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