Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Richard Marcotte

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The result was delete. Kurykh (talk) 00:49, 28 April 2017 (UTC)

Richard Marcotte

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Biography of a person notable primarily as the mayor of a city not large enough to confer notability on its mayors per WP:NPOL, and as a non-winning candidate for higher office. The biggest "more notable than the norm" hook here is that he resigned after facing corruption charges -- but he died before actually making it to trial for them, and since he was never convicted of anything in a court of law, we shouldn't be keeping an article about him on WP:PERP grounds. And with just five sources here, of which only two are non-local and zero are in the context of anything other than the PERP issue, there isn't really the depth or breadth of sourcing to claim that WP:GNG requires an article to exist regardless of the biographical sensitivities here -- he simply wasn't prominent enough for one of the highest-traffic websites in the entire world to keep an article on the basis of criminal allegations that will never actually be adjudicated one way or the other in a court of law. Bearcat (talk) 03:49, 20 April 2017 (UTC)

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 03:50, 20 April 2017 (UTC)

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Quebec-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 03:50, 20 April 2017 (UTC)

• Delete as mayor of city with 40,000 people. MB298 (talk) 02:00, 21 April 2017 (UTC)

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.