Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2017 Frederick mayoral election
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The result was delete. Tone 15:13, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
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Non-notable election SecretName101 (talk) 00:46, 22 September 2020 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions. Lightburst (talk) 01:01, 22 September 2020 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Maryland-related deletion discussions. Lightburst (talk) 01:01, 22 September 2020 (UTC)
- Comment. It looks like we have plenty of U.S. mayoral elections already in the encyclopedia. Is there an objective standard for notability? --Lockley (talk) 17:48, 22 September 2020 (UTC)
- @Lockley: No specific standard yet. But in this case, this article does not state that anything particularly noteworthy took place in this election, the city itself is not large or significant enough that it would seem all of its elections would be automatically noteworthy (as a city like Baltimore, Philadelphia, Boston, or Chicago's elections can be), and neither of the two candidates appear noteworthy enough themselves to have biographical articles published about them. If Chula Vista (a city many times larger) did not have its election articles, with far more detailed analysis, be considered notable enough for independent articles, then this election surely is not up to par. In the case of Frederick, I'd recommend that (unless elections are, for some reason, of particular note), mayoral elections be relegated at most to a table on the article for the city showing the general election results of recent mayoral races. SecretName101 (talk) 20:37, 22 September 2020 (UTC)
- thanks much @SecretName101:. I'd agree that we should only maintain separate elections articles for major cities (measured by population), or for special circumstances where the election earned news coverage beyond the local area. Chula Vista population about 271K. Frederick population about 72K. --Lockley (talk) 21:05, 22 September 2020 (UTC)
- @Lockley: No specific standard yet. But in this case, this article does not state that anything particularly noteworthy took place in this election, the city itself is not large or significant enough that it would seem all of its elections would be automatically noteworthy (as a city like Baltimore, Philadelphia, Boston, or Chicago's elections can be), and neither of the two candidates appear noteworthy enough themselves to have biographical articles published about them. If Chula Vista (a city many times larger) did not have its election articles, with far more detailed analysis, be considered notable enough for independent articles, then this election surely is not up to par. In the case of Frederick, I'd recommend that (unless elections are, for some reason, of particular note), mayoral elections be relegated at most to a table on the article for the city showing the general election results of recent mayoral races. SecretName101 (talk) 20:37, 22 September 2020 (UTC)
- delete Frederick is a pretty small city, and this is a routine election, with no claim to notability. Mangoe (talk) 22:08, 22 September 2020 (UTC)
- Delete per above. --Lockley (talk) 01:44, 23 September 2020 (UTC)
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