Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Thomas P. Richardson


 * 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 delete. Eddie891 Talk Work 18:26, 29 August 2021 (UTC)

Thomas P. Richardson

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Mayors don't automatically meet WP:NPOL, this is for a city of 90,000. Some coverage but little. Has been in CAT:NN for 12 years. Boleyn (talk) 15:30, 22 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Massachusetts-related deletion discussions.  Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 16:09, 22 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions.  Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 16:10, 22 August 2021 (UTC)

Keep Other mayors of Lynn have also Wiki pages. Pointly (talk) 00:52, 24 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete Nothing here to suggest he passes WP:NPOL. Lynn Massachusetts isn't big enough to give its politicians automatic notability....William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 11:48, 24 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete. At the time this was first created in 2009, our notability rule was that mayors were "inherently" notable if the city they were mayor of had ever cracked 50K in population. That's why other mayors of Lynn also have Wikipedia articles: because Lynn passes the 50K bar, the rule used to be that every mayor Lynn had ever had was automatically notable enough to keep an article regardless of how much or how little work anybody was actually inclined to put into it. That standard was deprecated several years ago, however: mayors are no longer "inherently" notable regardless of the city's size, but instead you must demonstrate their notability by actually writing and sourcing a substantive article that dives deeply into their political impact. Specific things he did, specific projects he spearheaded, specific effects he had on the development of the city, and on and so forth. In 2021, a mayor of a place much smaller than 50K can be kept if a genuinely substantial article can be written (see e.g. Marie Curtis), and a mayor of a place much larger than 50K can be deleted if it essentially just says "Thomas P. Richardson was a mayor who existed, the end." If our other articles about other mayors of Lynn are also this inadequate, then they should also be listed for deletion. Bearcat (talk) 13:09, 24 August 2021 (UTC)


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