Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Reno city councillors


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The result was delete all. Deor (talk) 11:47, 2 September 2014 (UTC)

Reno city councillors

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Under WP:NPOL, Wikipedia only extends an automatic presumption of notability to city councillors if they serve in major metropolitan world cities with populations in the millions, such as New York City or Los Angeles, but Reno (population 225K) does not meet that standard. A city councillor in Reno could still potentially be considered notable if the article were reliably sourced enough to get them past WP:GNG as an individual, but none of these four articles meet that standard either — Gustin, Dortch and Zadra all rely exclusively on the city's own website (an invalid primary source) and on "election results" lists which merely mention their names, and while Sferrazza is marginally better sourced than that, she still isn't sourced enough. (Sferrazza didn't win when she ran for higher office, either, so that claim still doesn't entitle her to an automatic keep in the absence of much better sourcing than this.) So they all need to be deleted as things stand right now. Bearcat (talk) 07:50, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
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 * Delete Sharon Zadra, Dan Gustin and Dwight Dortch due to failure of WP:BASIC. Jessica Sferrazza undecided.--180.172.239.231 (talk) 09:38, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
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 * Delete - Zadra, Gustin and Dortch could be speedy. References on Sferrazza are mainly mentions in local news articles, which as a city council person would be the norm. Not notable. May be in the future. LaMona (talk) 00:05, 24 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete all none of them come even close to the notability threshold for politicians.John Pack Lambert (talk) 03:02, 24 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete as non-notable, as of now, low-level legislators, i.e. councillors. Quis separabit?  19:51, 27 August 2014 (UTC)
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