Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hyram Copeland

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The result was delete. Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 03:22, 6 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Fails WP:NPOL and WP:GNG. Former mayor of Vidalia, Louisiana (population <5k), whose coverage is mostly limited to quotes about city projects. Note that numerous previous AfD discussions have established that membership in the Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame in and of itself is not an indication of notability by Wikipedia's standards (see 1, 2, 3, 4). DanCherek (talk) 15:04, 26 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. DanCherek (talk) 15:04, 26 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Louisiana-related deletion discussions. DanCherek (talk) 15:04, 26 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete. I'd just like to note that even before I actually checked the edit history to see who had created this, I already (and correctly) knew who it was going to be. As always, every mayor of every town is not automatically notable enough for a Wikipedia article just because he existed, Louisiana does not get special dispensation to treat its mayors differently than mayors everywhere else (and abracadabra, now the rest of you know exactly who created this too!), and just verifying the mayor's existence through primary sources, raw tables of election results and one hit of local coverage in his own local media market is not enough to get a mayor over the bar that mayors actually have to clear. Bearcat (talk) 16:53, 28 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete Like most articles written by this editor, the referencing is mostly simple voter/election information and other non-notability lending sources. Best, GPL93 (talk) 13:57, 2 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete This is not Louisianapedia.John Pack Lambert (talk) 20:37, 2 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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