Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Susan Peters (politician)


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was   keep. (non-admin closure) Baseball   Watcher  22:24, 1 May 2011 (UTC)

Susan Peters (politician)

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Non-notable local politician, unsourced since 2007; no significant news coverage found, just routine mentions in local reporting about county business MelanieN (talk) 14:05, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of California-related deletion discussions.  —MelanieN (talk) 14:37, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions.  —MelanieN (talk) 14:41, 11 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Keep - As a sitting elected official of Sacramento County, California and PRESIDENT OF THE SACRAMENTO AREA COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS. Sourcing is non-existent, and therein lies the problem, but that is repairable through the normal editing process. Sacramento is the capital of California, a fairly large state last I checked, and this is a public figure who has been and will be in the news. Obvious Keep, it would seem. Carrite (talk) 22:20, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
 * The CITY of Sacramento is the capital of California. However, that may not confer notability on the county; notability is not inherited. I am willing to withdraw the nomination if shown significant coverage, but I don't feel that a county supervisor is automatically notable. --MelanieN (talk) 02:53, 12 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Comment as nominator: I would have no objection to a redirect to Sacramento County Board of Supervisors, and in fact that might be more appropriate than outright deletion. --MelanieN (talk) 04:24, 12 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep, besides the fact that the official is currently in office, it would make sense to keep as most other current supervisors have their own articles. 08OceanBeach S.D.  02:15, 13 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Comment The article is still unsourced. Those of you who are !voting "keep" should consider adding at least one Reliable Source to the article. I don't think any administrator is going to want to close this as "keep" if it means putting it right back where I found it - in the backlog of unsourced BLP's! --MelanieN (talk) 08:44, 13 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Of course not. The article will need to be properly sourced if it wants to be kept. I'll see if I can find some. 08OceanBeach S.D.  01:35, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
 * The article has been cited with a reliable source stating she is in fact a Sacramento County Board Supervisor of District 3. It could use more references, but at least it now has a reliable source. 08OceanBeach S.D.  02:02, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

 Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  Sandstein   06:05, 19 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
 * Merge? I'd just like to add that, out of five supervisors, 1 doesn't have an article (Phil Sema), and two are undergoing AfD (this on and Roberta MacGlashn. I think that we should unify this since they have approximately the same notability, i.e. keep all or delete all. IMO, merge them all into the main article and redirect the individual names there because the main article is a stub itself anyway. Zlqq2144(Talk Contribs) 09:25, 19 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Comment - Per Melanie N.'s request above, I've added a third-party source about an award which Peters received. I'm amenable to the idea that all of these bios need to be merged to the article Sacramento County Board of Supervisors with redirects, suggested by Ziqq2144 above, as long as somebody actually does it. Carrite (talk) 16:32, 19 April 2011 (UTC)
 * If that is the result of the discussion, I will do the merge. --MelanieN (talk) 14:17, 26 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Personally I would like to see each have their own article. Though I am not completely closed-minded to a merger of all the supervisors. 08OceanBeach S.D.  22:14, 26 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Keep. Seems to be notable on the local level, which is enough for WP:Notability (as previously argued in Notability (local interests)). We have quite a few articles on small town mayors and whatnot, as well as county supervisors as mentioned above. The references need to be improved though. Crisco 1492 (talk) 08:20, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.