Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tim Ayers


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The result was   '''keep. Satisfies notability requirements as currently written'''. - Philippe 03:24, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Tim Ayers

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When I first put up a notice for deleting this article it was immediately removed with the summary stating that "Former mayor = notable". This is not necessarily an absolute statement, at least as it pertains to Notability (people). The applicable section would be under Politicians with the two salient qualifying criteria being:
 * Major local political figures who have received significant press coverage. Generally speaking, mayors are likely to meet this criterion, as are members of the main citywide government or council of a major metropolitan city.
 * Just being an elected local official, or an unelected candidate for political office, does not guarantee notability, although such people can still be notable if they meet the primary notability criterion of "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject."

Both of these require "significant coverage" of the subject in order to be met. To date, Tim has not received what could deemed to be this level of coverage in either the press or from reliable independent sources. I'm sure he's a good guy, just not notable. Ohioisthekey (talk) 16:11, 3 October 2008 (UTC) — Ohioisthekey (talk&#32;• contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
 * Keep WP:POLITICIAN states "Generally speaking, mayors are likely to meet this criterion, as are members of the main citywide government or council of a major metropolitan city." I think that the article can be improved, however.  In particular, the inclusion of local newspapers would help though these are not always online and need to be looked up in print or microfiche formats.  Wikipedia is a work in progress so the lack of those sources being included in the article is not a reason to delete but a reason to improve the article. --Ave Caesar (talk) 18:49, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Weak keep only because we don'treally have a population cutoff established. We ought to. His city is 65,000 and I think that very borderline.DGG (talk) 00:56, 4 October 2008 (UTC).
 * Delete The only reference provided was written by the article's subject. Article creator has only made edits relating to the Ayers brothers, which has me suspecting WP:COI is an issue also. Horrorshowj (talk) 17:24, 4 October 2008 (UTC) Reread history, he's focused on the town not the brothers. Horrorshowj (talk) 17:28, 4 October 2008 (UTC)


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