Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tom Pyne


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The result was   keep. (non-admin closure) ItsZippy (talk • contributions) 17:19, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

Tom Pyne

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I'm not really seeing how being the mayor of Cairns is sufficient for notability. Long-unreferenced BLP as well. Well it was, but the subject is no longer alive as of November 2011. The Blade of the Northern Lights ( 話して下さい ) 06:31, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions.  —Tom Morris (talk) 12:05, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Australia-related deletion discussions.  —Tom Morris (talk) 12:05, 9 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Keep: A search on Newsbank for "Tom Pyne" + cairns has 337 results. They are from the following publications:
 * Queensland Regional Publications (Australia) (248)
 * Courier Mail, The/Sunday Mail, The/QWeekend Magazine (Brisbane, Australia) (69)
 * Cairns Weekend Post, The (Australia) (15)
 * Australian, The/Weekend Australian/Australian Magazine, The (Australia) (14)
 * Daily Telegraph/Sunday Telegraph/Sunday Telegraph Magazine (Sydney, Australia) (3)
 * Sunday Tasmanian (Hobart, Australia) (1)
 * Advertiser, The (Adelaide, Australia) (1)
 * Sunday Times, The (London, England) (1)
 * If the results are changed to include Cairns in the text and Pyne in the article title, you get 28 results. These references include ten of the following:


 * VALE, TOM PYNE, Cairns Weekend Post, The (Australia) - November 5, 2011, Length: 18 words (Estimated printed pages: 1)
 * City bears legacy of a visionary man - VALE TOM PYNE: 1935 - 2011, Cairns Weekend Post, The (Australia) - November 5, 2011, Length: 416 words (Estimated printed pages: 2)
 * ALL WELCOME - Pyne funeral, Cairns Post, The (Australia) - November 3, 2011, Length: 84 words (Estimated printed pages: 1)
 * Tom PYNE - 1935-2011 (Former mayor and dedicated city leader) - A man of vision, passion and drive, Cairns Post, The (Australia) - November 1, 2011, Length: 22 words (Estimated printed pages: 1)
 * FAREWELL - Pyne mourned, Cairns Post, The (Australia) - October 31, 2011, Length: 73 words (Estimated printed pages: 1)
 * Cr Pyne calls for witness, Cairns Post, The (Australia) - June 8, 2010, Length: 195 words (Estimated printed pages: 1)
 * Dengue cases reach 361 as Pyne starts ... Fevered bid for cleanup, Cairns Post, The (Australia) - February 17, 2009, Length: 357 words (Estimated printed pages: 2)
 * Pyne opposes new Budget, Cairns Sun, The (Australia) - July 30, 2008, Length: 362 words (Estimated printed pages: 2)
 * Lone Pyne stands up for residents against rate rises, Port Douglas & Mossman Gazette (Australia) - July 24, 2008, Length: 290 words (Estimated printed pages: 1)
 * Pyne: Make Red Hill reserve land, Cairns Sun, The (Australia) - July 16, 2008, Length: 305 words (Estimated printed pages: 1)
 * Article is also not a BLP as the subject appears to have passed away. I believe sources shown support WP:GNG for a keep argument. --LauraHale (talk) 12:13, 9 February 2012 (UTC)


 * More usefully, searching for Thomas Alfred Pyne cains obiturary -wikipedia turns up a swathe of obituaries full of evidence of notability . Stuartyeates (talk) 18:51, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
 * I did a google search for the following: Tom Pyne Cairns. There were notable newspaper sources in the first few results, even with Wikipedia results showing.  There were at least three on the first page mentioning his passing. --LauraHale (talk) 20:14, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep. This article needs more sources, but it's clear that they exist. Subject easily passes WP:GNG, as you'd expect of the mayor of a large town (100K+ population). Meelar (talk) 23:43, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep. Mayor of a city of well over 100,000 people seems to me to meet our notability requirements. -- Necrothesp (talk) 14:08, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
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