Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Don Canney

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 delete Canney, keep Pate and Halloran. The relevant part of WP:BIO accords notability to "Politicians who have held international, national or statewide/provincewide office, and members and former members of a national, state or provincial legislatures.". There is no evidence that Canney has met this requirement, the article contains no independent notability, and there was a clear consensus that his page should be deleted. Pate (Secretary of State) and Halloran (member of state legislature) both meet the standard, there was a majority for keeping them, and there was a failure of the deleters to effectively address the question as to why WP:BIO should be overridden. TerriersFan 23:38, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Don Canney

Notability says, "Just being an elected local official does not guarantee notability." The article provides no sources and no claims that he was anything but a local elected official. Nyttend 21:19, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

OfficeGirl is also nominating the following related pages because of lack of notability. These are all articles created for the other mayors and former mayors of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. It looks like the people working on the Cedar Rapids article are looking for ways to satisfy a "What links here" search on their town's article. Their town's article is notable and well organized enough without the need for the mayor articles. Keep the town article but lose the mayors' articles.OfficeGirl 16:07, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

Paul Pate (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) – (View log)

Kay Halloran (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) – (View log)

• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politics-related deletions. -- the wub "?!" 14:29, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
• Keep Keep to notability or no notability has been asserted.--Zingostar 18:47, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment What does this mean? Nyttend 19:25, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
• Delete as nom says no real notability asserted. Eluchil404 04:13, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, —Wknight94 (talk) 14:14, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

• Delete for lack of notability, and DELETE all the other articles created for the other mayors and former mayors of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. It looks like the people working on the Cedar Rapids article are looking for ways to satisfy a "What links here" search on their town's article. Their town's article is notable and well organized enough without the need for the mayor articles. Keep the town article but lose the mayors' articles. OfficeGirl 15:36, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
• Delete Don seems to have served as mayor without doing anything notable. Unless he's the same guy who invented the Leech Lake Knife. :) MarkBul 16:00, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
• Since we're also debating Pate and Halloran: Strong keep on both of them. Note that Pate is a former Iowa Secretary of State, that Halloran is a former state legislator, and that WP:BIO says, "Politicians who have held international, national or statewide/provincewide office, and members and former members of a national, state or provincial legislatures." Of course, the position of mayor isn't enough, but the position of Secretary of State is definitely a significant statewide office, and a former state legislator is a former member of a state legislature. I was aware of these two articles when I nominated the other three, but purposely didn't nominate them. Nyttend 19:30, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
• Delete Canney, keep Pate and Halloran. Canney's article does not indicate a wider notability outside Cedar Rapids. As Pate and Halloran have had a wider impact on Iowa politics and they meet WP:BIO, their articles should be kept. As a general principle, bulk nominations should be minimised so that we can have a look at each article on its merits. Capitalistroadster 02:55, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
• Delete per narrow scope of notability. I dont think an encyclopedia is the place to list small town mayors. Corpx 04:10, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
• Keep Pate and Halloran for the reasons above. Delete Canney with no prejudice against recreation of significant coverage can be demonstrated (Cedar Rapids is hardly a "small town", and I'd be very surprised if somebody could become its mayor without receiving significant coverage; however there's not evidence of this in the current Canney article). Sarcasticidealist 10:03, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
• Weak Keep all Cedar Rapids (population 120,000) is a small city by population, but still the 2nd largest in Iowa. Mayors of large cities are certainly notable, and I think this probably counts. DGG (talk) 16:53, 5 September 2007 (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.