Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Norma Redfearn


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The result was keep. King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 01:13, 6 January 2017 (UTC)

Norma Redfearn

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Fails WP:POLITICIAN and, more importantly, WP:BIO. There are a ton of local sources that discuss Redfearn (to be expected when you're the mayor) but I'm not seeing anything resembling significant national (or international) coverage. Primefac (talk) 02:26, 27 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete local level politician with inadequate coverage to show notability.John Pack Lambert (talk) 02:45, 27 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Keep - Directly elected mayor in the United Kingdom as such covered by notability as this is a high level elected position, and the posts are unique enough in the United Kingdom for the holders to be notable. This notability is the same as all members of the House of Commons, no matter how short their stay, they are notable under WP:Politician criterion 1, same applies here. Sport and politics (talk) 11:27, 28 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Keep: I disagree with Sport and politics's attempt to stretch WP:POLITICIAN to suit her own interpretation of what she finds significant. The measure of whether an elected mayor meets WP:POLITICIAN is not the mere fact of being an elected mayor, but on the size and significance of the city/metro area involved.  At nearly a quarter million people, I fancy North Tyneside meets that definition, however.   Ravenswing   09:59, 29 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Keep: Per Ravenswing above. GauchoDude (talk) 19:18, 5 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Weak keep The population of her borough is 202,000. In the US, the cutoff for mayors is generally somewhere between 50,000 and 100,000. I however am not convinced the role has the same significance in the UK, which is why this is only a weak keep.  DGG ( talk ) 00:54, 6 January 2017 (UTC)


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