Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2018 Garland mayoral special election

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The result was delete‎. Star Mississippi 02:22, 21 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

2018 Garland mayoral special election[edit]

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Article was incorrectly PRODed [1] after being through an AfD at Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Mayoral_elections. I WP:REFUNDed it and brought it here. While incorrectly applied, the PROD put it best: "Routine election in suburban city, local coverage of routine results only without evidence of notability." Nickps (talk) 20:17, 29 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Politics and Texas. Nickps (talk) 20:17, 29 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Comment My fault with the PROD. I missed a small "afd" edit summary in the page history. Usually edit summaries for AFD nominations are a little more prominent. Did you have the article restored and brought it here to AFD simply because I made a mistake in the PROD 3 years ago? Seems a little bureaucracy for its own sake. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 02:39, 30 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - Nom is correct in their assessment of the article's notability, though there was no need to undelete it. - UtherSRG (talk) 11:10, 30 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I need to explain my rationale here. Since most of the articles from the original AfD still exist (and the ones that don't are merged somewhere else), to me that looks like there is consensus that this content belongs on WP. The fact that I personally think this shouldn't be the case is irrelevant. Had I phrased this as a purely procedural AfD without endorsing the PROD's reasoning it would have been clearer. Nickps (talk) 12:25, 30 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: More input would be helpful given the context nom identifies in their comment of 30 March.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Star Mississippi 00:59, 6 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, The Herald (Benison) (talk) 02:36, 13 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. Unexciting but notable. Elections are never routine. The two relistings suggest to me that AfD participants are being overwhelmed by the volume of nominations. Perhaps we need to tweak policy – so that a few more small-town mayors and random psychology professors are allowed in – in order to keep AfD at a manageable level. I find using Google Translate to make sense of Indonesian-language articles that are better than their English-language counterparts is increasingly draining. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 03:00, 13 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- Ow, I would love to see more articles about mayors in small towns/municipalities. The Netherlands had many tiny municipalities (often with less then 500 inhabitants). That those municipalities often survived only a few years is a small detail. The Banner talk 16:02, 13 April 2024 (UTC) No worries. It is true but I am not going to spend time on that.[reply]
Delete Nothing really here. Wikipedia is not a database of election results. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 03:25, 20 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: Per NOTDIR and nom. The Herald (Benison) (talk) 05:43, 20 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom, Pppery, and The Herald. Every local election gets local coverage, which is insufficient to show encyclopedic notability. BD2412 T 02:20, 21 April 2024 (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.