Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ted Terry (politician)


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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) Masum Reza 📞 18:26, 20 July 2019 (UTC)

Ted Terry (politician)

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WP:BLP of a small-town (pop. 12K) mayor, not reliably sourced as the subject of enough press coverage to clear WP:NPOL #2. As always, smalltown mayors are not automatically handed a notability freebie just because one or two pieces of purely local media coverage in their home media market can be shown to verify that they exist -- at this level of significance, the notability test is the ability to show a depth and range of coverage that marks him out as much more notable than most other mayors of places this size, such as nationalizing beyond just the local media. But people also don't get Wikipedia articles just for declaring their candidacies in future political party primaries, or for being the Eliza Doolittle in one episode of a television makeover show -- so nothing else here is "inherently" notable enough to exempt him from having to have nationalizing coverage of his mayoralty. Of course, no prejudice against recreation in November 2020 if he wins the congressional election, but nothing here constitutes a reason why he would already qualify for a Wikipedia article today. Bearcat (talk) 18:22, 13 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 18:22, 13 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Georgia (U.S. state)-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 18:22, 13 July 2019 (UTC)


 * Comment As the creator of the article I will not vote in this discussion, but I will note several RS articles that seem to cover Terry in depth: the Guardian, the Economist, Mother Jones, and (if interviews count) Vice. Also, all of these sources except the Mother Jones one were published before he appeared on Queer Eye. IntoThinAir (talk) 19:12, 13 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep As the subject appears to pass WP:GNG based largely on the profile in the Economist (found by IntoThinAir). This makes the subject more notable than most mayors as the coverage in Mother Jones, the Guardian, City Lab, PBS Newshour and others is substantial. I believe the extent of this substantial body of reliable source material means that the subject does pass WP:GNG independently of the subject's campaign for US Senate. --Enos733 (talk) 22:59, 13 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep I agree with Enos733's comments re the additional sources cited by IntoThinAir. --Krelnik (talk) 15:27, 14 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep I agree with Enos733 and Krelnik comments regarding IntoThinAir's sources --Blahblah29 (talk) 01:50, 19 July 2019 (UTC)


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