Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Robert Rankin (Canadian politician)


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

Robert Rankin (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 requires 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 with the only sources being a blurb's worth of information in a local history book and an undergraduate history essay by a student at the local university, it 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) 20:03, 1 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 20:03, 1 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Ontario-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 20:03, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

*Delete As per above fails WP:NPOL. SpareSeiko (talk) 18:21, 2 February 2021 (UTC)  is a confirmed sock of. Pahunkat (talk) 13:38, 8 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete Fails WP:NPOL. KidAd   talk  21:45, 1 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete not every mayor of North Bay becomes notable for this fact alone. This applies to some other places where we have a collection of many of the past mayors, often very minimally sourced, as well. I think Flint, Michigan is a place where someone might want to review if we actually have enough sources on all the past mayors to justify the article.John Pack Lambert (talk) 16:46, 4 February 2021 (UTC)


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