Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/USS Cooperstown

RE entry entitled: "USS Cooperstown." I was receptive to my editor, "wolfchild's" critique of my original edit to the "USS Cooperstown" entry. After an admittedly long-winded first attempt at an edit on Wikipedia, I considered the comments of my editor and I resubmitted the edit as a single sentence relating to the fact that not everyone in Cooperstown was "on board" with the naming of a warship after their hometown, and provided a cite to a local newspaper that made it completely clear that there was no local unanimity in regard to the naming of a battleship after Cooperstown. My editor told me this is not "newsworthy," since it cited a single entry in a small-town local newspaper, but I wonder exactly how much public consensus is required to raise the issue of dissent? Is there a set number of people who need to be involved before a Wikipedia article can mention dissent? If so, I would like know how many people are required. My hometown of Cooperstown has a very low population, in the neighborhood of 2000 people. It would be ridiculous, and unjust, to require the same number of people to express dissent in order to be "newsworthy" as would be required in as populated an area as New York City. I was offered no guidelines in this regard. I was merely told that a single entry in a "small town" newspaper was not sufficient. This seems to deprive people living in small towns of a voice on Wikipedia. I am open to further revisions of my edit, but I'm not sure how much a single sentence can be reduced. I also found it unprofessional for my editor, "wolfchild" to refer to me as an "antiwar conspiracy theorist on a soapbox." I am a local attorney, a graduate of one of the top 10 law schools in the United States, and there is plenty of local support for my viewpoint regarding the naming of a US battleship after my hometown. The citation I provided proves that there is no unanimity amongst Cooperstown locals regarding the naming of a warship after their town. People should not be silenced because they don't live in a big city and don't have thousands of supporters for their viewpoint. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Topher Hammond (talk • contribs) 17:14, 5 October 2018 (UTC)