Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Board of Selectmen of Somerville, Massachusetts

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The result was delete. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 06:46, 9 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Board of Selectmen of Somerville, Massachusetts[edit]

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Appears to be a non-notable town council; a WP:BEFORE search ("Board of Selectmen" "Somerville" "Massachusetts" -wikipedia.org) did not return anything focusing on the board of selectmen itself, while a search on newspapers.com similarly returned just standard proceedings. This board thus fails WP:GNG through a lack of significant coverge. While some of the people on the list may meet WP:NPOL through service in the legislature, the vast majority likely do not, so it fails WP:NLIST as well. Curbon7 (talk) 07:01, 2 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Politics and Massachusetts. Curbon7 (talk) 07:01, 2 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: Ugh. So for about thirty years, ending over a century and a half ago, a not-all-that-significant town (with apologies to a friend of mine raised there, and to my old high school principal, who was its superintendent of schools for twenty years) had a board of selectmen, and someone thought THAT was significant enough for a standalone article? Ugh twice; no. The only source this article ever has had is primary, the only coverage out there fails WP:ROUTINE. This falls so embarrassingly short of all notability criteria to merit a trout slap to the article creator, if his last edits to Wikipedia weren't over a year ago.
(I'd oppose any notions of a merge as well; the entire span of Somerville's history as a town in the main article fills just a single paragraph, and every Massachusetts town -- no matter how tiny -- has a board of selectmen.) Ravenswing 18:08, 2 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - before the invention of the automobile, Somerville was a small, rural town. Even in 1870, it had only 14,685 residents; only in the 20th century did it become a larger suburb of Boston, at times over 100,000 folks. Bearian (talk) 20:02, 6 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.