Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Per R Berger

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The result of the debate was DELETE. -Splash 20:51, 12 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Per R Berger

Not notable. I was going to just put this as a speedy delete, but started having doubts as the subject is a mayor. I'm having difficult assessing the notability of this person as I know no Norwegian. As far as I can see, he's simply the mayor of a small town - see [1]. Finbarr Saunders 09:45, 4 September 2005 (UTC)

• Delete NN-vanity. I could write 5 or 6 like that for various people who you've never heard of. CambridgeBayWeather 09:49, 4 September 2005 (UTC)
• Strong keep. Mayors are encyclopedic. This one has served for six years and is on his second term - he's surely notable enough for a Wikipedia article. However, this was certainly a case of extremly bad and unencyclopedic writing, with a lot of irrelevant information, but I've done a complete rewrite of it now. / Alarm 12:19, 4 September 2005 (UTC)
• Delete: Improperly titled, and mayors are only sometimes in, sometimes not. I wish folks wouldn't extrapolate rules from single debates in the past. It depends on the mayor, the town, and the biography. When a person's name (properly spelled and punctuated) is an article title, what is supposed to follow is a biography. If the person does not have a sufficiently active and meaningful life for people outside of the town to need to know about, then the person should simply be mentioned as "5-time mayor" in the town's article. Break out the biography when the biography is a valid article. In this particular case, the mayor should be mentioned elsewhere, and not done as a biography. Geogre 13:08, 4 September 2005 (UTC)
  • "Improperly titled" is not grounds for deletion. Punkmorten 20:11, 4 September 2005 (UTC)
• Merge to article on town, redirect. Mayor of a town of 5,000 people is not inherently notable, but someone wrote it down, so we might as well keep it. Sdedeo 18:43, 4 September 2005 (UTC)
• Delete per Geogre Denni☯ 23:08, 2005 September 4 (UTC)
• Keep. Mayors are inherently notable. Wikipedia is not paper.--Nicodemus75 05:14, 5 September 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, mention him in article on town as per Geogre. Wikipedia is not toilet paper. Proto t c 13:22, 5 September 2005 (UTC)
• Delete per User:Geogre Pilatus 13:33, 11 September 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Alarm, I demur from your assertion that all mayors are encyclopedic. What about five house villages? C'mon, be serious.---CH (talk) 06:15, 12 September 2005 (UTC)

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