Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Thomas H. Cooke Jr.


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The result was merge to Mayor of East Orange, New Jersey. Spartaz Humbug! 21:59, 2 June 2020 (UTC)

Thomas H. Cooke Jr.

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Does not meet WP:NPOL, non-notable mayor and unsuccessful candidate for state assembly. Rusf10 (talk) 14:51, 9 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Rusf10 (talk) 14:51, 9 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of New Jersey-related deletion discussions. Rusf10 (talk) 14:51, 9 May 2020 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Delete. East Orange NJ is not a significant enough city to confer guaranteed inclusion rights on its mayors — its mayors could get in the door if they could be really well sourced, but are not automatically entitled to have articles just because they exist. Mayoral notability, however, is not about whether it's possible to verify his vote totals in elections — a mayor's notability hinges on the ability to write a substantive article about his political impact: things he did in the mayor's chair, specific city-building projects he spearheaded, significant successes and failures, and on and so forth. But that's not what's on offer here: six of the footnotes (two of which are primary sources that are not support for notability at all, and three of which are redundant reduplication of one source) literally just represent verification of vote totals, and even the one that might actually contain enough substantive information about his mayoral agenda to actually start getting us somewhere is still just being used to verify that he lost a primary for another office, rather than any content about his agenda. And even if somebody were to extract some real information about his agenda from that source, it would still take a lot more than just one such source to actually get him to the finish line anyway. Bearcat (talk) 16:50, 9 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Merge/redirect to Mayor of East Orange, New Jersey, the best Alternative to Deletion, the preferred Wikipedia policy.Djflem (talk) 16:28, 13 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete per Bearcat's very fine analysis of the issues involved.John Pack Lambert (talk) 21:07, 14 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep - Coverage addressing Bearcat's concerns are in the New York Times that is already cited in the article. Additional coverage about his mayoral run and bio info. His mayoral activities  What's happening in more recent times  Morbidthoughts (talk) 18:06, 15 May 2020 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Natg 19 (talk) 05:10, 16 May 2020 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Keep per Morbidthoughts Iamreallygoodatcheckers (talk) 03:58, 21 May 2020 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 17:02, 24 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete all of the coverage is just local, which goes against WP:NPOL. Merge/redirect is fine by me. SportingFlyer  T · C  06:11, 1 June 2020 (UTC)


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