Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/San Bernardino mayoral election, 2017

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The result was redirect to List of mayors of San Bernardino, California. (non-admin closure) sst✈^(conjugate) 01:41, 19 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

San Bernardino mayoral election, 2017[edit]

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Delete per WP:CRYSTAL. Unsourced and non-notable as of yet, if ever. Regards, James(^talk/_contribs) 00:27, 12 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions. /wiae /tlk 00:46, 12 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of California-related deletion discussions. /wiae /tlk 00:46, 12 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect or merge to List of mayors of San Bernardino, California. Maybe WP:TOOSOON edtiorEهեইдအီးËეεઈדוארई電子ಇអ៊ី전자ഇī😎 00:47, 12 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect/merge per above. It's not just that it's too soon; this will never be worthy of a standalone article. Mayor elections in this second-rank city (17th in size in California, 100th in the United States) are simply not notable enough to have a separate article for each election. --MelanieN (talk) 01:00, 12 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - I see the argument of WP:TOOSOON, but the page might be notable enough to keep because of the 2015 San Bernardino attack. What do others think? Meatsgains (talk) 02:43, 12 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

KEEP San Bernardino is actually well known, it is the anchor of the 13th largest metropolitan area in the United States, larger than San Diego Melanie. Can the article be expanded upon? Yes. If SB is deleted so should the Atlanta one. James is always looking to delete SB articles instead of helping to expand them. House1090 (talk) 07:07, 12 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Note the Atlanta one includes references and has multiple declared candidates. --do ncr am 09:05, 12 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to List of mayors of San Bernardino, California. Per WP:CRYSTAL. This article was created with a seeming promotional tone for the incumbent's re-election more than a year and a half in the future. As to the above comment about the 2015 attacks in San Bernardino, that is a different issue not relevant to this. — Maile (talk) 14:38, 12 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Comment to expand on my recommendation to redirect. (I lean more toward Delete, but redirects are cheap.) This article contains no references and no information, except the name of the incumbent (three times, just so you don't miss it) and the fact that he is eligible to run for a second term. That's it; that's all there is to say. He hasn't even announced if he will run again. If you Google search for this election, this Wikipedia article is literally the only thing you find; the 2017 election mayoral election in San Bernardino has no other presence anywhere at this time, not even on the city's web page. So there's nothing to expand it with even if we wanted to. BTW, notice that no previous mayoral election in San Bernardino has an article here. There's a good reason for that: the 2013 election got only routine local coverage[1] and that's likely to be the case for the 2017 election as well. San Bernardino may be "well known" but its mayoral elections aren't. --MelanieN (talk) 22:50, 12 February 2016 (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.