Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Steven M. Berman

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The result was delete. Sam Walton (talk) 10:07, 13 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Steven M. Berman[edit]

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The article is not medicore but could certainly use improvement (information and source-wise) and my searches found nothing particularly good, here, here, here and here. This would've been redirected elsewhere (I was going to be bold but there's no good target) so I'd like to hear from users. SwisterTwister talk 06:28, 22 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 22:16, 26 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 22:16, 26 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Arizona-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 22:16, 26 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 02:38, 29 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Trivial positions. The accusations are not significant in themselves, and that's what the refs. are about. DGG ( talk ) 16:49, 2 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Served as mayor of a prominent Arizona town, very notable. SuperCarnivore591 (talk) 03:59, 4 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - Elected mayor of a city of 200,000 people, serving 8 years. That's enough to get past WP:POLITICIAN in my book... Carrite (talk) 04:36, 5 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, —☮JAaron95 ^Talk 06:15, 5 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Nothing in notability for politicians would support automatic keep for a mayor of a medium-sized town. #2 says "Major local political figures who have received significant press coverage." However, it also says that politicians need to meet GNG. Looking at the references here, all of them are from two local papers (along with some primary sources that don't count toward notability). I think that the decision here will need to hinge on whether those local sources are considered sufficient. My judgment is that a town mayor would need to get significant attention in at least a statewide newspaper. Both of the sources here cover a region within the state, not the whole state. They both pronounce themselves to be "local" papers, not statewide. About Arizona Central / East Valley Tribune: "We are local. We cover the East Valley." LaMona (talk) 04:11, 6 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete fails WP:POLITICIAN. Mayors does not get a freebie encyclopedic article on Wikipedia unless they meet WP:GNG. Wikic¤l¤gy^{t@lk to M£} 16:04, 6 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete fails WP:NPOL and violates WP:BLPCRIME. The whole "Controversies" section is about baseless accusations, and the coverage is WP:ROUTINE at best. Kraxler (talk) 15:53, 7 September 2015 (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.