Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Scott Foster


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The result was   redirect to Williamsburg, Virginia. Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:10, 8 June 2012 (UTC)

Scott Foster

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Very small town city council member No evidence of meeting WP:POLITICIAN, Delete Secret account 17:42, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep Elected as a student, Scott garnered significant local press coverage, especially since in being elected to city council, he succeeded where two students failed in the last several years. --BDD (talk) 18:30, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Weak delete Redirect per DoI below. Being elected young does not confer notability. Sources are difficult to find; quick look on google shows nothing usable. Basa lisk  inspect damage⁄berate 18:42, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Redirect- To Williamsburg, Virginia, where he is already appropriately mentioned. Re-evaluate if another individual achieves notability, guidelines change, or a separate article meets guidelines. Sufficient coverage to support inclusion of redirect as a viable search term. Dru of Id (talk) 19:12, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Comment Nomination statement is wrong; see the statistics at List of cities in Virginia. No opinion on keeping or deleting.  Nyttend (talk) 03:52, 1 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep Redirect per Secret below, I'm persuaded. Basalisk, "significant coverage in reliable sources" are very easy to find: just search Google for . A more restrictive Google search for <"scott foster" "city council" williamsburg> returns 7,000 results, including current articles in every newspaper in the media market: The Virginia Gazette, The Daily Press, The DoG Street Journal, and The Flat Hat, and The Virginia Informer. Scott Foster's election was a major civic event in the Williamsburg, VA community: Over the past 6 years, three previous student candidates had attempted to run for city council and failed. Turnout in the election reached a record high (compare to turnout in the most recent election results). This election was highly notable, albeit for a town of 15,000 people. Diktatur89 (talk) 14:04, 1 June 2012 (UTC)
 * It might be notable in Williamsburg but not elsewhere as this is a global encyclopedia. The news coverage outside the local area is close to nil, and WP:GOOGLEHITS isn't really much of a persuasive argument because many of these mentions aren't reliable independent sources of the subject that is needed to meet WP:GNG. In Google News I see some coverage in the local news, but not much as it's mostly very minor passing mentions such as election results. I'll accept a redirect. Secret account 15:01, 1 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Virginia-related deletion discussions.  • Gene93k (talk) 15:57, 1 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions.  • Gene93k (talk) 15:58, 1 June 2012 (UTC)
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