Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jill Hardy

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 of the debate was delete. --Angr (t·c) 18:59, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Jill Hardy

This page was created by one of my friends as a joke , and this person was a very unpopular mayor and abused her rights and almost got kicked out of her job. This page was NOT vandalized but in fact those comments were real. This page should be deleted ASAP. It was simply made to make fun of her and show to people at the High School. Unremarkable person, apparent vanity bio, frequent vandalism, no value, no real content. -- Jbamb 06:12, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

• Speedy delete as nn-bio. Claims of notability, but will never be more than a sentence. I agree that it is not a speedy but it should still go. (ESkog)^(Talk) 06:17, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep and expand. Not a speedy, the woman was Mayor of a major town. -- JJay 06:34, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
  • No one has done anything but vandalize this page, if she was Mayor of a major town, why are there no accomplishments? It seems that at best this will be trivia with no meat behind it. She served only one year in a town of 200,000 people. There are about 10,000 towns that size, do we create bios for every office holder in history of those towns? -- Jbamb 06:44, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
    • I hate vandalism as much as the next guy. However, if that was a reason for deletion, the George Bush article would have to go immediately. I think bios of every mayor and major elected official would be a nice goal for wikipedia. Just use templates instead of AfD to get improvement-- JJay 07:12, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
      • There's a difference between valuable articles that get vandalized, and articles that seem only to exist for the purpose of vandalizing. The people who put this up did it to slam this woman. They keep changing the page. There doesn't appear to be anyone truly interested in putting real information up. -- Jbamb 16:11, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
    • The vandalism seems to have begun in the last week, as the article was untouched for six months. It could end as quickly as it began. Many school related articles are vandalised, but removal is not an option. The original stub for Ms. Hardy was not designed to slam her as it merely stated she was Mayor of her town. There was no vanity whatsoever. I do not feel qualified to decide what is or is not valuable. However, as one-time Mayor and city council member, Ms. Hardy, in my opinion, is notable enough for this encyclopedia. -- JJay 17:39, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep but it needs at least a stub classification.TheRingess 06:35, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
• Conditional keep: only if the focus has shifted to her term as mayor before the end of this AfD. No more messing around. Otherwise, delete. Harro5 06:36, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
  • One year as mayor? Delete as non-notable. There would be hundreds of mayors for this town alone, and that sets a bad precedent. Harro5 00:46, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
• Conditional Keep as per Harro5. Otherwise, delete. Regards, Ben Aveling 06:46, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
• Weak delete. In Huntington Beach, California, Hardy served one year as mayor because that position rotates among the city council members annually; it's not as though she was elected mayor in her own right for a four-year term as one might see in other cities. I can imagine this being a valid article nonetheless, but right now I don't know whether that will happen. --Metropolitan90 08:17, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
• Comment why do residents of smallish United States cities presume their hometowns are world famous? Include the state, please. Durova 08:28, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
  • But everybody knows about Paducah! ;) -- Jbamb 14:26, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete city council members are hardly notable.Gateman1997 19:47, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, if she's from a city where Mayor is chosen by the city council from themselves.[1] --SarekOfVulcan 01:42, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Lets try not to put everything on Wikipedia, whether notable or not.Voice of All^T|@|ESP 05:14, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete per anyone you like above. Vandalism magnet. Oh and put a {{deletedpage}} on it as well. Stifle 01:52, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. If she was mayor of a major city, like LA, I would easily say keep. But, in many California cities, there is a city council that rules the city, and some hire a city manager to deal with internal affairs. In that situation, you usually draw straws to see who is "mayor of the month," since it is mainly a title that has little meaning. I also will like to see a deleted page template slapped on the article. Zach ^{(Smack Back)} 08:04, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.