Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Diane Leek

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The result was delete. Secret ^account 05:05, 16 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Diane Leek

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Local councillors are not usually considered inherently notable. Being Lord Mayor is irrelevant - in Britain this is merely an honorary position in which one serves for only a year. All councillors will eventually become mayor if they serve on the council long enough. Looking on the Category:Lord Mayors of Sheffield, every other one with an article has been notable in some other way, such as being an MP or an influential local industrialist, often with a knighthood or baronetcy. She is simply not notable enough for an article. -- Necrothesp (talk) 14:49, 9 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Necrothesp (talk) 14:50, 9 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of England-related deletion discussions. Necrothesp (talk) 14:50, 9 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete After a brief Google I cannot find any substantial account of her beyond the bio in the external links. Other Google results bring up only routine, passing references. I agree with the nominator that Lord Mayorship is nothing special.--A bit iffy (talk) 15:07, 9 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Delete As a Sheffield resident, I can confirm that there is nothing special about the title Lord Mayor and as stated above, if you're there long enough, your turn comes around. (The "Lord" bit is because Sheffield has the status for its mayor to be so-called; it is still just an unelected one-year honorary position.) The rest of the article is general run-of-the-mill stuff that could apply to thousands of elected councillors all over the UK, apart from the circumstances of her having to stand for re-election, which is interesting but not of such earth-shattering import to warrant a Wikipedia article. Emeraude (talk) 16:16, 9 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Also worth noting: The bulk of the aricle is copied verbatim from the City Council's website linked at the foot of the article. Emeraude (talk) 16:19, 9 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Delete I agree with with with user A bit iffy. —Prof. Squirrel (talk) 18:19, 9 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
This likely resulted from a false equivalency between the role of mayor as it exists in some other countries (where they have a lot more political authority, and past a certain city size are generally considered notable enough for Wikipedia articles as long as they're properly sourced) and as it exists in the UK (where many of them hold an exclusively ceremonial role that probably isn't enough to confer notability by itself.) Directly elected mayors in England and Wales should certainly qualify for articles, but that doesn't apply to her; mayors of the "ceremonial" type should probably only have their own articles if there's properly sourced evidence that for one reason or another they've become more notable than the norm for that role, but that doesn't seem to apply here either. Delete per nom. Bearcat (talk) 01:49, 13 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Delete -- In a city the size of Sheffield, being leader (or elected city mayor - if they had one) might be notable, but mayor (or in a city Lord Mayor) is not. Commonly, the senior councillor who has not held the post gets it for one year. The question is thus was she WP-notable before appointment. WP:POLITICIAN implies not. Peterkingiron (talk) 16:25, 15 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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