Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/David Hamilton (Canadian politician)

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The result was keep. Can't sleep, clown will eat me 00:21, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] David Hamilton (Canadian politician)

Like Lynn Peterson (also at AfD) this is a person whose sole claim to notability is having at some time been mayor of Thunder Bay, Ontario, a moderate-sized Canadian town. Looks like a one-term mayor (five years). Mayoralty of towns this size falls below the criteria for inclusion at WP:BIO and there is no other claim to notability here - actually it's a stub so nothing much there at all. Just zis Guy you know? 15:04, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

• Keep - mayor of Thunder Bay, Ontario is an inherently encyclopaedic position. This article is a stub is not a criterion for deletion, but rather for expansion. WilyD 15:29, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

• Comment: We should draw the distinction between the position/office itself, which could be encyclopedic, but the office-holder is probably not. It is not automatic and would depend on what the person did, and its impact. Ohconfucius

• Keep as per WP:BIO. By defintion, the mayor of a city is a major local political figure. -- Whpq 17:47, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Thunder Bay, Ontario is a major city, not town (this guy sound like the person who said Saskatoon was a town). -Royalguard11^{TalkMy Desk} 01:59, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Mayors are notable. It's not like Thunder Bay is a dot in the middle of the road. Kirjtc2 02:36, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per Kirjtc2 Resolute 02:50, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. Municipal politicians are not notable per WP:BIO. TB is not even a big municipality: "According to the 2001 census, there were 109,016 people residing in Thunder Bay", 0.33% of the Canadian population. Ohconfucius 03:56, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
  • Please read the Thunder Bay article to understand why Thunder Bay is in fact a huge municipality, of extreme significance. WilyD 11:43, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. Mayors are notable. --TruthbringerToronto (Talk | contribs) 02:46, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom; 100,000 people might well be "a huge municipality, of extreme significance" if it were in Antarctica, but it isn't. Eliminating Wikiechos, this guy gets fewer ghits than the mayor of Woluwe-Saint-Lambert, who has managed the notablesque feat of being mayor since 1977. Or the leader of Falkirk (council area), which has more people. Average and unimportant local politician, and WP:BIO agrees. Angus McLellan (Talk) 21:16, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

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