Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Thomas Colgan


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The result was delete. &spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 06:06, 9 February 2021 (UTC)

Thomas Colgan

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Biography of a person notable primarily as mayor of a smallish city, not properly referenced as passing WP:NPOL #2. Mayors are not handed an automatic notability freebie just because they're minimally verifiable as having existed -- the notability test for a mayor doesn't hinge on the ability to verify a few stray biographical facts by finding one blurb's worth of information about him on one page of a local history book, but on the ability to write a substantive article about his political significance: specific things he did, specific effects he had on the development of the city, and on and so forth. But this features essentially none of that, and doesn't cite nearly enough coverage to deem him as passing WP:GNG in lieu of having to satisfy the notability criteria for mayors. Bearcat (talk) 19:51, 1 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 19:51, 1 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Ontario-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 19:51, 1 February 2021 (UTC)


 * Delete considering that someone wanted to speedy delete an article on a person in Pakistan who was the lead government official over a place with more than 200,000 people, the fact that we have articles on so many mayors of a place that currently has just over 50,000 people is a sign of how much these under sourced local political figures articles almost always lead to systemic bias in coverage.John Pack Lambert (talk) 14:48, 5 February 2021 (UTC)


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