Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Timothy Dougherty (2nd nomination)

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The result was delete. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 08:56, 4 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Timothy Dougherty

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Small town mayor, does not even come close to meeting WP:NPOL guidelines. Rusf10 (talk) 01:50, 27 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Rusf10 (talk) 01:50, 27 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of New Jersey-related deletion discussions. Rusf10 (talk) 01:50, 27 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Smalltown mayors are not automatically notable per WP:NPOL — so the notability test that a smalltown mayor actually has to pass is not just that a handful of local election coverage exists, because every mayor of everywhere can always show that. Rather, the bar that a smalltown mayor actually has to clear is that you can write a substantive article about his political significance (specific things he did as mayor, specific city-building projects he championed, etc.), referenced to a depth and volume and range of reliable source coverage that makes him much more special than the norm for mayors. But there's nothing like that being shown here at all — this, as is so often the case in bad articles about mayors, just reads like somebody tried to rewrite his "meet your mayor" profile from the city's own website rather than making any effort to write an article that contextualized his political significance. Bearcat (talk) 13:58, 27 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete The sourcing is a mix of primary sources and local coverage. To show notability for a mayor of a place this size we would need news coverage from a place where Morristown is clearly outside their coverage area, or better yet coverage in a book published by a reliable publisher, and if the latter it would need to be more than a glancing name check. Oddly enough the last deletion discussion involved trying to deprecate the value of someone's contribution because they alledgedly focus too much on deletion discussions. We have let too many articles on mayors stand for far too long.John Pack Lambert (talk) 16:00, 27 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - I looked through all google pages with "Timothy Dougherty" and nothing significant showed up. Sources already listed do not establish notability. Delete. Ikjbagl (talk) 05:51, 4 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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