Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/David Parkin (politician)

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The result was delete. Spartaz ^Humbug! 05:28, 10 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

David Parkin (politician)

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Mayor of a small city. No significant coverage for NPOL#3 Galobtter (pingó mió) 11:53, 17 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

What is the basis for the assertion that there is "no significant coverage"? Unscintillating (talk) 16:39, 21 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete small area mayor lacking sufficient sources to show notability.John Pack Lambert (talk) 16:20, 17 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Checking the contribution history shows that this !vote appears to have been prepared and posted in 1 minute and 8 seconds after the previous !vote. Note that this !vote has not considered the WP:ATD. Unscintillating (talk) 16:39, 21 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Delete – per Galobtter and John Pack Lambert. Kb.au (talk) 03:35, 18 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Merge and redirect to City of Burnside. Small city local government mayor with no specific notability so no article in its own right. However, the subject is a multiply re-elected mayor involved in a State Government inquiry into aspects of the council with sources available to the extent a paragraph or two is warranted in City of Burnside describing Parkin's involvement and a little more broadly. Aoziwe (talk) 11:55, 18 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
A paragraph or two is much undue, methinks. There's right now only a paragraph on the entire inquiry, and there have been numerous mayors consider how old the city is. Galobtter (pingó mió) 04:07, 19 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Okay - a extra sentence, or at most two, to that paragraph. Aoziwe (talk) 12:38, 20 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

How about merging to History of Burnside? Unscintillating (talk) 16:39, 21 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Delete The subject does not appear to be the subject of national or international coverage and the population of the city is less than 50,000. --Enos733 (talk) 18:40, 18 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

GNG mentions neither national nor international coverage. GNG does not mention population sizes. What was your analysis of the WP:ATD? Unscintillating (talk) 16:39, 21 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Local mayors do not qualify for WP:POLITICIAN absent significant non-local coverage, which is not in evidence here. Frickeg (talk) 11:21, 20 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Mayors are inherently part of a larger topic in the encyclopedia, so that for mayors, it is safe to say that WP:DEL8 never overcomes WP:ATD. And why include only non-local coverage? Unscintillating (talk) 16:39, 21 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Strong Delete- clearly fails WP:POLITICIAN--Rusf10 (talk) 18:15, 20 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to History of Burnside. I searched on Google news and Google web using the search term ["David Parkin"]. What I see is a long-running story in which this topic ran for office to combat what he considered to be factional fighting and succeeded. Although part of the story ended with a court case in 2011, the story continues to attract news in the Fall of 2017. Unscintillating (talk) 16:39, 21 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps, move some of that stuff from city of burnside and add about him. Galobtter (pingó mió) 04:50, 25 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: What do those supporting deletion think about merging, and to where?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ansh 666 07:12, 26 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Can add a sentence or two to this paragraph An inquiry was launched in 2009 by then state Local Government Minister Gail Gago into allegations of "harassment, bullying and misconduct" by then members of the City Council. After about $200,000 of expenditure by the council and $1.3 million by the state government, legal action by former councilors prevented the release of the report. A Supreme Court ruling on 27 May 2011, found that the report could be partially released, after material related to parts of the terms of reference deemed inappropriate was redacted. from the main article. Galobtter (pingó mió) 07:17, 26 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to History of Burnside. I fully concur with what Unscintillating wrote.―Matthew J. Long -Talk-^☖ 06:31, 28 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - Close but not up to to my own personal benchmark for autokeeping elected mayors, that being a city of 50,000 people. Carrite (talk) 14:17, 1 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Delete or merge?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Sandstein 10:41, 2 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Merge to clarify. To City_of_Burnside#Politics Galobtter (pingó mió) 10:51, 2 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Also recommend a merge to History of Burnside as mentioned before.―Matthew J. Long -Talk-^☖ 03:15, 3 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I don't really care either way. Galobtter (pingó mió) 04:43, 3 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete -- a directory-like listing on a nn politician. Does not meet WP:NPOL and significant RS coverage not found. The city article would not benefit from inclusion of this content, so I don't see a reason for a merge or redirect. K.e.coffman (talk) 03:09, 7 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - lack of coverage fails WP:POLITICIAN. I also don't see any reason to merge unless there was a list of mayors in the City of Burnside#Politics section, which there is not. BTW - he ran unopposed, which for such a small city only lessens the notability of being mayor. TimTempleton ^(talk) ^(cont) 20:28, 9 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Switching to editor mode to help resolve this: Delete. This meagre content about an obscure local political dispute is not worth merging. Nobody argues that notability for keeping exists. Sandstein 20:51, 9 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
To clarify more I don't really care either way since it's just two sentences. If someone creates a list of mayors it should probably be targeted there. Galobtter (pingó mió) 04:36, 10 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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