Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ryan Bater


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The result was delete.  Sandstein  18:57, 26 October 2020 (UTC)

Ryan Bater

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WP:BLP of a politician notable primarily as leader of a minor political party without legislative representation during his leadership and mayor of a small city in the 10-20K population range. Neither of these are "inherent" notability freebies that guarantee an article, but the sourcing is not solid enough to get him over the WP:GNG or WP:NPOL #2 bars that he actually has to clear: of the seven footnotes here, one is the party's own self-published content about itself and two are routine reportage of election results. So there are really only four sources relevant to establishing his notability, of which one is just verifying his initial announcement of his leadership candidacy, one is verifying the date of his resignation, and one is verifying his initial election as mayor. That's not enough, however: to be notable for either of these reasons, he has to show substantial coverage that establishes the significance of his party leadership and his mayoralty, not just the raw dates on which he assumed or resigned the positions. That is, coverage which talks about specific things he did, specific projects he spearheaded, specific impacts he had in the job, and on and so forth. This has also been flagged for possible conflict of interest concerns for nearly a decade, incidentally. Bearcat (talk) 18:09, 19 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 18:09, 19 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 18:09, 19 October 2020 (UTC)


 * Delete - Non-notable former SLP leader/Mayor of a small town. Me-123567-Me (talk) 03:16, 22 October 2020 (UTC)


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