Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mary Heveran

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. Mayors of major cities are frequently kept on Wikipedia; mayors of small towns usually are not. Despite the appearance of a 5-4 no-consensus, three of the four keep votes have to be discounted as anon IPs and likely puppets of the sock or meat flavours. Bearcat (talk) 01:10, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Mary Heveran

Mary Heveran (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) (delete) – (View log)

Delete local politician mayor of the fine city of 9000 souls, but ultimately not notable. It may be time to set up a notability guideline for local politicians - yes, this isn't exactly the place to discuss that - because literally many will have mentions in the local rags that no doubt some would consider as meeting WP:BIO or WP:N rather than just demonstrating further WP:BIAS toward the US/UK who have lots of local rags and they all seem to be on the internet. Just a thought... In any event, this mayor is so nn, we don't know when or where she was born, her policies, party, whether she has any real power or is a first among equals type of mayor or even how long she has been or will be mayor. Alas, the things an inquiring mind would want to know from an encyclopedic biography.. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 18:59, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

• Delete, well below WP:BIO and my own generous standard permitting mayors of cities over 100,000 or so. --Dhartung | Talk 05:06, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
• Keep, well SHE IS THE MAYOR and mayors are NOTABLE --69.86.172.50 (talk) 00:10, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
• Keep, just make the article longer —Preceding unsigned comment added by Megapen (talk • contribs) 00:04, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
• Keep she is a mayor --71.250.8.236 (talk) 00:09, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
• Weak Keep Article makes claims of notability and should be expanded and improved, not deleted. Alansohn (talk) 06:13, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
• Speedy Delete - she's the mayor of what would be called a commune in France, or a village in New York. That's not enough for WP:N or WP:BIO specifically. Missing any good cites makes it fail for WP:BLP and could be speedied. Bearian (talk) 02:12, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
• Delete per our current guidelines on notability of politicians found here. This particular mayor simply doesn't make it. Keeper | 76 | Disclaimer 20:13, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
• Delete per Keeper76 and Wikipedia:Notability (people)#Politicians. --MCB (talk) 22:35, 22 February 2008 (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.