Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dennis Mulder

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The result was no consensus. Lankiveil ^{(speak to me)} 12:07, 11 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Dennis Mulder[edit]

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Delete. Poorly sourced WP:BLP of a mayor. While the city is large enough that he could have an article if he could actually be sourced over WP:GNG, it's not large enough to hand an automatic presumption of notability to its mayors just because they exist -- but the sourcing here doesn't get him over GNG, as it consists of a raw table of election results on the city's website, and two pieces of purely WP:ROUTINE local coverage of him not running for other offices. This simply does not demonstrate encyclopedic notability. Bearcat (talk) 17:12, 27 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 17:13, 27 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Florida-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 17:13, 27 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Does not meet notability standards based on content and sources in article. --‖ Ebyabe ^talk - Opposites Attract ‖ 17:56, 27 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Keep A quick archive search on Muldar brought up far more than the usual coverage of this colorful controversial, and unusually young mayor in the big regional dailies, the Orlando Sentinel, The Daytona Beach News-Journal. A car dealer and founder of a tennis club, Muldar campaigned in a silver, 2003 BMW 745. Upon winning, he moved to repeal the city property tax on houses: cue press and googoo skepticism. Then articles on themes like "Disturbing serenity is a Dennis thing," Lafferty, Mike. Orlando Sentinel; Orlando, Fla. [Orlando, Fla] 18 June 2006). And "Mulder mulls mileage of his fancy car picks," Orlando Sentinel; Orlando, Fla. [Orlando, Fla] 04 Sep 2006 (granted, these were in the Volusia County edtion of the Sentinel). and "Mayor 'forgets' to file for tax cut: Deltona's Dennis Mulder passes up $25,000 homestead exemption" Denise-Marie Balona. McClatchy - Tribune Business News; Washington [Washington] 17 June 2007, break out text: "Dennis Mulder drives luxury cars, wears Armani and paid an..." Next a recall movement sprang up. That was just the first 10 hits on a Proquest archive search. I only scanned the first hit, the article about the campaign (wondering now if I should have looked to see what comes after "paid an... " .) With the rest, I cite merely the hits in the Proquest list. I haven't gone further (after adding the first article to the page) because I am persuaded that notability is there and Wikipedia:Deletion is not cleanup. There is too much coverage to justify deleting.E.M.Gregory (talk) 19:43, 27 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. significant coverage in a major regional newspaper (Orlando Sentinel) including the above mentioned as well as [1], [2], as well as other pubs. Jacona (talk) 14:35, 29 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 13:51, 3 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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