Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rick Goldring

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The result was delete‎. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 22:57, 1 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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WP:BLP of a mayor, not properly sourced as passing WP:NPOL #2. As always, the notability test for a mayor is not passed just by verifying his existence, and requires significant reliable source coverage supporting a substantial article about his political impact: specific things he did, specific projects he spearheaded, specific effects his leadership had on the development of the city, and on and so forth. But there's no such content here at all, and in fact the article is putting significantly more emphasis on an unsuccessful candidacy for higher office than it is on his mayoralty itself -- but that's also not a notability claim either, and the article is referenced to a primary source table of election results and a small smattering of local-interest coverage nowhere near sufficient to claim that he would pass NPOL #2 on that basis.
Nothing here is "inherently" notable enough to exempt the article from having to have considerably more substance and better referencing for it than this. Bearcat (talk) 20:34, 25 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Politicians and Canada. Bearcat (talk) 20:34, 25 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• delete Not seeing the notability, and there's no claim of it other the mayorality by default, which doesn't cut it. Mangoe (talk) 04:09, 26 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete: Fails WP:NPOL #2. As Bearcat mentioned, there's not really a significant claim to notability here except for just being a mayor of a city. Hey man im josh (talk) 16:58, 28 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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