Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Michael Brennan (Canadian politician)


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The result was delete.  MBisanz  talk 02:43, 25 February 2021 (UTC)

Michael Brennan (Canadian politician)

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Biography of a person notable primarily as mayor of a smallish city, not properly referenced as passing WP:NPOL #2. Mayors are not handed an automatic notability freebie just because they're minimally verifiable as having existed -- the notability test for a mayor doesn't hinge on the ability to verify a few stray biographical facts by finding his obituary in a newspaper, but on the ability to write a substantive article about his political significance: specific things he did, specific effects he had on the development of the city, and on and so forth. But this features essentially none of that, and doesn't cite nearly enough coverage to deem him as passing WP:GNG in lieu of having to satisfy the notability criteria for mayors. Bearcat (talk) 19:47, 1 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 19:47, 1 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Ontario-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 19:47, 1 February 2021 (UTC)


 * Weak keep. I disagree that the two sources cited in the article, including an obituary in the Ottawa Citizen, are insufficient to pass GNG/BASIC. I think he just scrapes by. AleatoryPonderings (???) (!!!) 21:18, 1 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Even just a basic GNG pass requires more than just two sources. Bearcat (talk) 21:47, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Delete Mayors of cities at this level are not in any way default notable. We need clearly more than two good sources to show notability.John Pack Lambert (talk) 16:10, 4 February 2021 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HistoricalAccountings (talk) 13:20, 9 February 2021 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Natg 19 (talk) 05:46, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete as notability is not evident and pageviews suggest noone is searching for this obscure person. Bungle (talk • contribs) 17:58, 24 February 2021 (UTC)


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