Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rowena Simpson


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The result was delete. Eddie891 Talk Work 17:07, 6 December 2020 (UTC)

Rowena Simpson

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WP:BLP of a smalltown mayor, not reliably sourced as passing WP:NPOL #2. As always, mayors are not automatically notable just for existing as mayors, and just having been the first woman mayor of her own small town isn't an automatic notability clincher either -- and notability is not inherited, so she also isn't entitled to special treatment just because her husband (who was a provincial MLA) has an article. Rather, the notability test for mayors hinges on the ability to write and source some genuine substance about her political significance -- specific things she did in office, specific impacts she had on the development of the town, and on and so forth -- and not just on the ability to offer technical verification that she existed. But the sourcing here consists of the town's own primary source website about itself, a glancing namecheck of her existence in an article about her nephew, and just one article about her initial election as mayor, which is not nearly enough. Bearcat (talk) 14:58, 29 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 14:58, 29 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 14:58, 29 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Women-related deletion discussions.  Spiderone  16:05, 29 November 2020 (UTC)


 * Delete Fails WP:GNG pretty clearly and does not pass WP:NPOL. A sentence mention of her at the town's article may be appropriate. SportingFlyer  T · C  16:09, 29 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete she was mayor of a place with less than 1000 people. If she were to be considered notable we would at least double the size of Wikipedia with the number of mayors we would be considering notable.John Pack Lambert (talk) 20:05, 30 November 2020 (UTC)


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