Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John Ruttan

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The result was delete‎. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 21:27, 18 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

John Ruttan[edit]

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Article about a mayor, not properly demonstrated as passing WP:NPOL #2. As always, mayors are not "inherently" notable just for existing, and have to show significant reliable source coverage supporting substantive content about their political impact: specific things they did, specific projects they spearheaded, significant effects their leadership had on the development of the community, and on and so forth. But the bulk of the content here is background biographical trivia that isn't evidence of notability, while his mayoralty is summarily dispatched as "election result, the end" -- and for sourcing, there's one hit of verification of the election results, three primary sources that aren't support for notability, and one book that doesn't cover the subject at all, but is here to tangentially "verify" background information about his ancestors, and fails to even really do that because it contains the surname Ruttan but was published in 1869, and thus obviously fails to name John Ruttan at all for the purposes of properly verifying that he's actually a descendant of any of the Ruttans covered in that book. And even if that were somehow more verifiable than it is, that still wouldn't help to support John Ruttan's notability anyway, since notability is WP:NOTINHERITED.
Nothing here is "inherently" notable enough to exempt him from having to have much, much more sourcing and substance than this. Bearcat (talk) 17:13, 11 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Politicians and Canada. Bearcat (talk) 17:13, 11 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Alaska-related deletion discussions. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 19:14, 11 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nomination. BottleOfChocolateMilk (talk) 02:38, 15 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - no evidence of sustained coverage that isn't news or primary sources in my BEFORE. microbiologyMarcus ^{[petri dish·growths]} 15:28, 15 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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