Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of mayors of New Madrid, Missouri

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The result was merge to New Madrid, Missouri. (non-admin closure) – AssumeGoodWraith (talk | contribs) 03:32, 19 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

List of mayors of New Madrid, Missouri[edit]

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List of non notable mayors of tiny town. Dronebogus (talk) 11:17, 23 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Politicians, Lists of people, and Missouri. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 11:34, 23 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Biased Keep Yeah, I created this. I'll vote keep -- if a biased vote is even allowed. It's history. Most big city mayors, except a few very big city mayors, are rather non-notable. A few American mayors have been state representatives are something like that or perhaps the relative of a more famous person, but that's about it usually. Durindaljb (talk) 18:10, 23 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Additional I am not sure why there is a sudden fury to delete several articles that I created and have been around in wikipedia for the past 7 1/2 years! I guess I really wasted countless hours of time with this project. Durindaljb (talk) 18:18, 23 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete mayors of minor places are not default notable. If a few were impractful enough to be mentioned in the history section of the New Madrid article they can be mentioned there, but there is no reason to have such a list.John Pack Lambert (talk) 13:37, 25 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Merge @Johnpacklambert Could you expand on how one determines the possibility for there to be a default for notability due to the size of a location? By applying this default due to the size of area governed biases the coverage of the encyclopedia to specific geographic regions with high population density without regard to the impacts to the cultural experiences of those in lower populated areas with equal lengths of history. The notability and impact may be more regional which does not have the same resources and attention devoted to the coverage of the activities. Given Wikipedia's abilities to cover long tail of culture and information a default argument that "minor places" is problematic and widens specific bias of Wikipedia. I propose that position lists should be merged at the very least with and checked that the data is included in Wikidata as the position holder series (replaces and replaced) by provide significant value to Wikidata and back to Wikimedia projects as it enables rebuilding the lists as a person may be identified to show the relationship of the position held from previous to current. Building lists of political positions is not necessarily easy and a process change from deletion without preserving the lists in Wikidata does defeat the work which it takes to create such lists. Merge to the place the positions are applicable and merge the data for position holders to Wikidata. Wolfgang8741 says: If not you, then who? (talk) 16:55, 25 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Fails WP:LISTN. Not one notable politician on this list. KidAd • SPEAK 19:15, 25 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: more input would be helpful
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Star Mississippi 13:34, 1 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. The mayors may indeed be non-notable, but the designation of New Madrid as a "tiny town" suggests that New Madrid itself is considered to be non-notable. However, tiny or not, it is world-famous on account of the earthquake. Everyone interested in seismic events has heard of New Madrid. Athel cb (talk) 15:36, 1 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Still more participation needed
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Less Unless (talk) 18:03, 9 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Merge to a govenment subsection of New Madrid, Missouri. Short lists like these fit into the existing article, which right now has nothing about the local government structure. Sandstein 12:45, 17 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep: Obviously this content could be put into the article on the city, so this is mostly a formatting preference. If the preference is against keeping (and it seems to be in other AfDs over at least the past year), it should thus be merged.--Milowent • ^hasspoken 18:36, 17 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Merge per Sandstein. This is not a keep vote. Stifle (talk) 11:22, 18 May 2022 (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.