Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bill Robertson

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 was keep. Majorly (talk) 01:06, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bill Robertson

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Non-notable, possibly autobiographical article. Mayor of a town with a population under 20,000. --м info 22:13, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

• This AfD nomination was incomplete. It is listed now. DumbBOT 14:44, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

• Speedy keep no reason given for deletion. TRKtvtce 16:55, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
• The original reason for deletion was apparently deleted by accident. It has been restored above. --Metropolitan90 17:06, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Louisiana-related deletions. -- SkierRMH 18:32, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
• Delete, fails WP:BIO. See also Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Paul A. Brown. --Dhartung | Talk 20:01, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
• Keep seems to be notable in his part of LA.Bakaman 03:04, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
• Delete, per Dhartung — Bellhalla 16:21, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
• Keep, seems to be notable enough, Camptown 20:40, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Would this person meet notability if he were a member of the state legislature, rather than a small-town mayor? Where is the 20,000 population criteria determined? Would a mayor of Plains, Georgia, for example, be eligible because that town obtained attention through Jimmy Carter. What about a mayor of Crawford, Texas? I read somewhere on the board that notability is notability in the local area, not statewide.

Billy Hathorn 18:33, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

I looked through a half dozen or so Articles for deletion. (I had never looked through the list before.) I found all of those articles vastly inferior to the articles on these two mayors Bill Robertson and Paul A. Brown. The Robertson and Brown articles meet the standards for any local politicians and are well-written. The other articles that I checked for the most part made no sense at all and were poorly written and organized.

Billy Hathorn 16:40, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

• Weak keep - probably salvageable, needs a few more references. Addhoc 18:48, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

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