Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/James Ditson Service

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The result was soft delete. WP:REFUND applies. Ritchie333 ^(talk) ^(cont) 10:03, 30 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

James Ditson Service

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Article about a person notable only as a mayor of a suburban township, not reliably sourced as having enough media coverage to clear WP:NPOL #2: the only reference present here at all is his purely routine paid-inclusion death notice on legacy.com, not actual journalism. As always, the notability test for municipal politicians (even mayors) is not simply the ability to single-source the fact that they existed; it is the ability to write and source a genuinely substantive article about their political impact, and the idea that a mayor whose article isn't doing that still gets an automatic inclusion freebie anyway, just because the town or city eventually surpassed an arbitrary population cutoff, was deprecated years ago as no longer applicable to mayoral notability anymore. Bearcat (talk) 18:34, 22 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 18:43, 22 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Ontario-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 18:43, 22 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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