Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bob Brown (Texas politician)

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The result was delete. ~ Amory (u • t • c) 02:36, 16 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Bob Brown (Texas politician)

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Doesn't meet the thresholds of

WP:GNG. Contested PROD. Cabayi (talk) 12:06, 8 March 2019 (UTC)[reply
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Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Cabayi (talk) 12:06, 8 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Texas-related deletion discussions. Cabayi (talk) 12:06, 8 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
The phrasing of "smaller towns" in
WP:NPOL doesn't apply to mayors of municipalities unless its at least a moderately-sized one (100,000+). Best, GPL93 (talk) 22:33, 8 March 2019 (UTC)[reply
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What
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Nope, GPL93 is correct about what POLOUTCOMES meant by "smaller towns". The rule is most definitely not that as soon as a place reaches 20,000 in population, its mayors suddenly get an automatic guaranteed right to have Wikipedia articles regardless of the quality of sourcing or substance those articles actually contain: the notability criterion for local politicians is "who have received significant press coverage", which is not what this article is showing. You need to be familiar with the actual outcomes of past AFDs on similar topics if you expect to be taken seriously as an authority on Wikipedia's notability criteria — and past AFDs have very clearly not supported a population of 20,000 as an instant notability-maker for a mayor. Bearcat (talk) 23:16, 8 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Conversely, you have no evidence that I'm wrong either. It doesn't state that a "smaller town" is a town of less than 20,000 in
    WP:POLOUTCOMES. I am basing the population number on what I have seen in previous AfD's. GPL93 (talk) 23:10, 8 March 2019 (UTC)[reply
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talk) 23:33, 8 March 2019 (UTC)[reply
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And I'm telling you, you don't need to show a "source" for your interpretation of what "small towns" means in POLOUTCOMES — Wikipedians who've been around here for over a decade, and know much better than you about what was intended by it, are telling you what it is. And at any rate, POLOUTCOMES is simply a summary of common outcomes, not the trump card in a notability debate — the trump card for notability of mayors is
WP:NPOL #2, where the notability test is "who have received significant press coverage", but that's not what you're showing. NPOL trumps POLOUTCOMES, not vice versa. Bearcat (talk) 01:26, 9 March 2019 (UTC)[reply
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Also please note that settlement hierarchy is a concept that is used for
Deep East Texas is a sub-region and that, additionally, simply being the largest or one of the largest towns in an area doesn't mean that it automatically meets "regional prominence". GPL93 (talk) 04:08, 9 March 2019 (UTC)[reply
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