Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tom Nipp

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The result of the debate was NO CONSENSUS: 9 delete votes and 7 keep votes. — JIP | Talk 06:32, 13 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Tom Nipp

Mayor of a town of 17,000. There are more people than that at my school. Not notable enough for an encyclopedia. Does not meet WP:BIO criteria. Delete. Gamaliel 03:29, 4 September 2005 (UTC)

  • WP:BIO applies the 5000 threshold to entertainment figures and not to politicians, for which it states "Political figures holding international, national or statewide/provincewide office". Gamaliel 10:11, 4 September 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep It seems very odd, and unjustifiable, to me to make the bar for notability for TV/movie producers, directors, writers, actors, authors, editors, photographers and musicians to be 5000, while setting the bar for poltician's notability at hundred's of thousands or millions. Dsmdgold 11:27, September 5, 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep. Karol 12:19, September 4, 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete: Worth being mentioned in New Castle, Indiana, but not as the subject of a biography. Fails WP:BIO. Geogre 13:24, 4 September 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete; merge and redirect to the parent town, some content here that might as well be kept. Kappa seems confused about WP:BIO. Sdedeo 18:12, 4 September 2005 (UTC)
    • See Dsmdgold's comment above. Kappa 15:20, 5 September 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete per nominator Pilatus 18:34, 4 September 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete. As per Gameliel. / Peter Isotalo 22:46, 4 September 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete per nominator Denni☯ 22:50, 2005 September 4 (UTC)
  • Delete. Add a brief mention to the town's article, but we don't need a whole separate text on him, nor a redirect. He'll be gone in a few years, never searched for, but still findable in the article so we get our level of prominence about right. -Splash 22:55, 4 September 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete. All of the claims in the article except for holding the position of mayor are unreferenced and possibly unverifiable. Fails WP:BIO. A single line mention in New Castle, Indiana is sufficient. Quale 04:46, 5 September 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep. Mayors are notable local politicians. Sjakkalle (Check!) 08:39, 5 September 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep the mayor. Klonimus 09:23, 5 September 2005 (UTC)
    • Err, since when did being a mayor for a small town become notable in itself? Please try to respect consensus guidelines. / Peter Isotalo 15:06, 5 September 2005 (UTC)
      • Why should he do that if he disagrees with the current consensus? Dsmdgold 15:27, September 5, 2005 (UTC)
        • Because I don't feel this is the place to deviate from them by such wide margins. / Peter Isotalo 17:18, 5 September 2005 (UTC)
          • Where does one go to try to change the current consensus, if not here? This is after all, for good or ill, the place where consensus is reached on what stays or goes. Dsmdgold 01:30, September 7, 2005 (UTC)
          • Where is this consensus documented? Zoe 06:33, September 7, 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete If there is a list of mayors at New Castle, and he is a mayor, then that should be where he is listed. Unless, in addition to being a mayor, he is notable for some other reason. For myself, I can't believe a list of mayors for New Castle, Indiana is encyclopedic. But there you go. Evidently it is and so that's where he should be... Marcus22 13:13, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep for many reasons already said. Mayor of 17,000? Sounds notable to 17,000 people then. SchmuckyTheCat 23:38, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
    • 17,0000 is a terribly small amount of people all things considered... / Peter Isotalo 09:00, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete Simply being the mayor of some small city does not make one notable.---CH (talk) 08:46, 12 September 2005 (UTC)
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