Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/1994 Bracebridge municipal election

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The result was delete. ✗plicit 01:30, 11 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

1994 Bracebridge municipal election[edit]

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Two minimally sourced articles about municipal council elections in a small town, with no particular evidence that they would be notable topics. In both cases, the sourcing is being used entirely to support mini-BLPs of individual people (the mayor in 1994, a ward councillor in 2006) who would not otherwise pass WP:NPOL #2 for the purposes of actually getting standalone articles, with absolutely no sourcing present to support the notability of the elections as events. We long ago deprecated the idea that we need to document town council election results in every small town on earth — to be fair, that was a popular strain of belief at the time these were created, so they were good faith creations at the time, but these just aren't demonstrating any compelling reason why they would still be needed. Bearcat (talk) 01:11, 4 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 01:11, 4 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Ontario-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 01:11, 4 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Not a notable election, and the wedging of a single non-notable biography into each is ridiculous. Reywas92^Talk 05:52, 4 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- This user has created scores of similar articles including such hotly contested elections as 2005 Mont-Saint-Michel municipal election and 2003 Brigham municipal election, in which the leadership of these small towns of 600 and 2,500 people were not even contested. Why??? Then there's a whole bunch of pages like 1987 Quebec municipal elections and Ralliement créditiste du Québec candidates in the 1976 Quebec provincial election which are wildly incomplete and don't make sense as articles even if expanded either. Batch noms may be in order. Reywas92^Talk 06:13, 4 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. There is no limit to the number of articles of this sort that could be created. I wonder why anybody would think that this is worthwhile. "Batch noms may be in order": I agree. Athel cb (talk) 08:41, 4 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
I agree that this article should be deleted. It wasn't contentious when I created it, many years ago, but I agree that by Wikipedia's current standards it should go. I'd also be fine with deleting the Brigham page listed above and other pages of that sort. I wouldn't agree with deleting pages like 1987 Quebec municipal elections, because that subject matter is still notable, irrespective of the current state of the article. CJCurrie (talk) 18:54, 4 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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