Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Richard Bunyan


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The result was delete. &spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 06:05, 9 February 2021 (UTC)

Richard Bunyan

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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 one blurb's worth of information about him on one page of a local history book, 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) 19:53, 1 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 19:53, 1 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Ontario-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 19:53, 1 February 2021 (UTC)


 * Delete not every mayor of every place with over 50,000 people today is notable. Having seen lots of past articles on former mayors I have to say many are atrociously under sourced. This is one area where we let the wild west nature of early Wikipedia get truly out of control and the creation of way too many articles on people who virtually nothing is known about happen.John Pack Lambert (talk) 16:41, 4 February 2021 (UTC)


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