Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Julie Aberg Robison

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The result of the debate was No consensus -> Keep Zzyzx11 (Talk) 19:44, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Julie Aberg Robison

Only notable as a town councillor. NatusRoma 21:49, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

• Keep we have many articles on city councillors (Category:Toronto city councillors alone has 60) and they are a valuable part of the encyclopedia. If you want to reopen this debate please revive Wikipedia:Deletion policy/Local politicians rather than debating councillors one ar a time. - SimonP 00:17, Jun 7, 2005 (UTC)

I hardly intended to force another policy discussion by listing these articles. I only listed them as twelve different pages because past discussions on the VfD Talk page seemed to discourage bulk listing, and I only listed them at all because I happened to come across Jack W. Smith while sorting people stubs. To consider your example of the Toronto City Council, it seems to me that there is an order-of-magnitude difference between that council and the one on which Ms. Robison sits. Cary, North Carolina has just under 100,000 people, while Toronto has 2.48 million. I have not visited either municipality, but Toronto is far more important than Cary, a significance extended to its elected officials. Moreover, the subjects of articles in the Toronto council category have, in some cases, served in that body for decades, or have run for national office, or have done other, additional newsworthy things. Ms. Robison, by contrast, has served in her office for only a few years, and has done nothing additionally newsworthy. NatusRoma 06:52, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)

• Delete — Insufficient notability as a politician. — RJH 19:57, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Keep - Member of the governing body of a town of over 100,000 people, and elected at-large by a constituency of the same size. -- Seth Ilys 01:36, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Delete there are thousands of them.  Grue  09:28, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Delete not notable to the world at large. --Xcali 20:13, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• keep, locally notable, coverage of local politics is a valuable part of wikipedia. Kappa 21:27, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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