Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Floyd Smith (Louisiana politician)

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The result was delete. Ritchie333 ^(talk) ^(cont) 11:21, 6 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Floyd Smith (Louisiana politician)[edit]

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Small town mayor who fails WP:NPOL and WP:GNG. Sources used are: 1)announcement of his death in a local newspaper; 2) federal govt records confirming that Smith did, indeed, pass away when he did; 3) unlinked family genealogy; 4) No actual source, just a note from the pages creator; 5) a "statement" from the subject with no link or context as to what said statement is; 6) local coverage about him and 4 others receiving "mayor of the year" from the state association of municipalities; 7) dead link to an obit for ANOTHER mayor, not Smith; 8) Primary election results; 9) an unlinked local newspaper article, of which Smith is not the subject; 10) an unlinked and untitled local newspaper article from 1984; 11, 12, 13, and 14) election returns; 15) his obit in the local newspaper; 16) an unlinked search on net detective, no mention of what results they turned up. GPL93 (talk) 23:16, 26 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions. ~SS49~ {talk} 02:25, 27 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. ~SS49~ {talk} 02:25, 27 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Louisiana-related deletion discussions. ~SS49~ {talk} 02:25, 27 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete mayors of places with less than 10,000 people (the population when he was mayor) are not default notable. The sourcing is absolutely not enough to show that he is notable.John Pack Lambert (talk) 00:28, 1 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete- small town mayors have to get a lot of coverage from non-local sources to be notable.--Rusf10 (talk) 15:17, 3 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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