Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nancy Waters

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The result was delete. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 05:07, 30 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Waters is a county clerk in Michigan, in the United States. There is not enough in-depth coverage of her to demonstrate notability. Neither her clerkship or her prior position as a county commissioner give her presumed notability per WP:NPOL. The most in-depth source I could find on her was this M Live article about her issuance of same-sex marriage licenses during a very brief period of legality in Michigan. This is the focus of much of the coverage of Waters, most of it incidental, and it's hard not to see this as a WP:BLP1E situation. I'd suggest a merge to Same-sex marriage in Michigan, but I think the short mention of her there is about all that is due. News pieces that give non-trivial treatment of Waters outside of that less-than-one-day period are just routine election coverage. Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 04:40, 23 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Politicians, Michigan, and Sexuality and gender. Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 04:57, 23 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Women-related deletion discussions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 19:08, 23 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete I found two other sources, and one that could contribute to notability in which she was awarded "civil libertarian of the year" by the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan's Western Branch. That doesn't, however, get us beyond WP:BLP1E, the one event which they both address, and a regional ACLU award for that WP:BLP1E doesn't put here over the top for GNG. Lamona (talk) 20:56, 24 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete The WP:BLP rules clearly state the being elected to or holding low-level municipal office does not make one notable for the purpose of a Wikipedia article. There is no notability here of lasting significance or worthy of coverage beyond regional day-to-day routine coverage. Wikipedia can’t have articles for every person holding every possible political or government position. I vote to delete. Go4thProsper (talk) 09:32, 25 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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