Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Michael A. O'Connor

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The result was delete. Anyone may create a redirect if so desired. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 04:29, 6 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Michael A. O'Connor

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Local mayor who fails to meet Wikipedia's notability criteria Mpen320 (talk) 04:12, 29 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politician-related deletion discussions and list of Illinois-related deletion discussions--Mpen320 (talk) 04:51, 29 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Delete mayor of a minor suburb of Chicago, this is not the type of position that ever gives notability.John Pack Lambert (talk) 14:53, 29 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to Berwyn, Illinois#Mayors, fails WP:NPOL and doesn't seem to have done anything particularly notable while in office that would give him an independent pass of GNG. The mayor of a 56k population city needs to be shown to have gotten significant coverage for actually doing something while in (or theoretically out) of office, which O'Conner doesn't seem to have done. Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 15:54, 29 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete and/or redirect. Berwyn IL is not large enough to instantly clinch the permanent notability of its mayors just because routine local reportage of election results can be shown to offer technical verification that they existed — to clear the notability bar, he would have to be referenceable to a significant volume of career coverage. The notability bar for a mayor is not the ability to locate cursory verification of the fact that he won one or more mayoral elections — it is the ability to write and source some genuine substance about his political impact in the mayor's chair: specific projects he spearheaded, significant political successes or failures, significant effects he had on the development of the city, and on and so forth. But that's not what this article is — and if an article has existed for 15 years yet nobody has ever seen fit to get it up to snuff at all, then it's highly unlikely that anybody's ever going to get it up to snuff. Bearcat (talk) 23:00, 29 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete another mayor who is not notable in the encyclopedic sense.-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 15:26, 3 July 2020 (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.