Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of deputy mayor of Halifax, Nova Scotia

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The result was delete. despite the limited discussion, since the opinions are quite in line with WP policy. DGG ( talk ) 02:00, 18 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

List of deputy mayor of Halifax, Nova Scotia[edit]

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Delete. Deputy mayors of cities are not a topic we normally keep lists of, as it's not an inherently notable position — this is literally the only list of deputy mayors that actually exists on Wikipedia for any city in the entire world (even in the very few cities where we do have an article about the position, there still isn't a standalone list and usually there isn't even an embedded one — and even then "Deputy Mayor of (City)", if it exists on Wikipedia at all, is usually just a redirect to an article on the whole city council rather than a standalone topic.) City councils choose their deputy mayors by any number of different methods (internal vote of the council members, periodic rotation so that everybody on council gets a turn, direct accession of whichever councillor got the highest vote total in the ward elections, nepotistic appointment of the mayor's political allies, etc.), but in almost no city is it ever directly elected by the general public. Which means that a list of them is not normally a maintanable article — and if we can't generally keep lists of most cities' deputy mayors, we can't make a standalone exception just for Halifax alone. (In addition, on at least a couple of occasions people have wrongly construed the existence of this list as conferring an automatic WP:NPOL pass on the holders of the title...which it doesn't.) And, for that matter, even if it were to be kept it would still have to be moved to List of deputy mayors of Halifax, Nova Scotia anyway. Bearcat (talk) 18:20, 8 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 14:12, 9 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Nova Scotia-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 14:12, 9 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 14:12, 9 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists of people-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 15:35, 12 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Delete -- all non notable individual and the topic area is quite esoteric -- deputy mayors? K.e.coffman (talk) 00:05, 13 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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