Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Norm Mayer


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was   delete. Lankiveil (speak to me) 04:02, 1 March 2014 (UTC)

Norm Mayer

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I fail to see any reference making this person more notable than a small city mayor, fails to meet the criteria laid out in WP:POLITICIAN or MOS:CA. 117Avenue (talk) 03:34, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep - It may be borderline, but I feel that he passes GNG and the links above. I have tried my best to flesh it out with appropriate references and I believe having the article benefits the encyclopedia. Oh and thanks for the notification of the AfD, by the way.. – Connormah (talk) 04:04, 20 February 2014 (UTC)


 * delete He did nothing truly notable as mayor.John Pack Lambert (talk) 04:20, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete - fails WP:POLITICIAN and WP:GNG as his coverage is WP:ROUTINE. He's done nothing more notable than mayors of other cities Camrose's size and the noted events that occurred during his past mayoralship don't elevate his notability. Hwy43 (talk) 04:45, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
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 * Delete There is a certain amount of subjectivity in applying WP:POLITICIAN to mayors. I consider mayors of major world cities like Edmonton to be notable. I consider mayors of cities of significant regional importance to be notable in most cases. A small percentage of small town mayors are notable if they have accomplished something truly unusual or received significant coverage above and beyond the routine coverage that every small town mayor gets from the local news media. I don't see that in this case of this mayor of a town of about 17,000 people. He seems like a fine fellow, but the line "Originally entering politics with intentions to give back to his community" says both a little and a lot. The same thing can be said of 99.9% of small town mayors, and is not encyclopedic.  Cullen 328  Let's discuss it  06:27, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete. Small town mayors are generally not notable. -- Necrothesp (talk) 12:59, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete. Mayors are not considered inherently notable on Wikipedia just for being mayors; while we typically allow mayors of larger cities, we typically delete mayors of smaller ones unless they make a really good claim of notability that would lift them beyond most other smalltown mayors. (A lot of people apply a population test of approximately 50K; although there's no formal policy mandating that cutoff, it is a fairly good though not entirely infallible rule of thumb for determining whether you should bother trying or not.) Bearcat (talk) 18:25, 22 February 2014 (UTC)
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