Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Anthony Perici

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The result was delete. — foxj 16:27, 17 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Anthony Perici[edit]

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No indication of meeting any of the BIO notability standards. Local pol, no more. Probably also a NOTMEMORIAL issue too. John from Idegon (talk) 05:57, 5 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. Lakun.patra (talk) 06:41, 5 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 15:32, 6 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Ohio-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 15:32, 6 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Strong keep, he governed 20,000 people for more than ten years. The article is well developed and well sourced and passes WP:GNG. Antrocent (♫♬) 18:59, 7 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
A town of 20,000 people does not confer an inclusion freebie on its mayors per WP:NPOL. A mayor of a place this size can get into Wikipedia if the sourcing and substance is really solid, but the place has to be considerably larger than this before its past or present mayors get an automatic "keep because mayor". And the sourcing here is not solid enough to satisfy WP:GNG: there are just four references here, of which two are deadlinked articles in his own hometown's community weekly newspaper (a class of sourcing that wouldn't be sufficient to satisfy GNG even if the links were still live, because community weeklies are deprecated as unable to carry notability), one is a primary source being cited to confirm that his name is not actually included in the list of recipients of an award that one of the deadlinked sources reportedly claimed that he won (an especially egregious case of failing to constitute coverage of him), and the last is his obituary on legacy.com (a source which doesn't make him special, since that resource just republishes all death notices that appeared in all member publications regardless of whether the deceased met any special notability criteria or not). That's not even remotely close to the volume or quality of sourcing it takes to get a smalltown mayor into Wikipedia — community weekly newspapers and WP:ROUTINE death notices can be used sparingly for some additional confirmation of biographical details after GNG has already been met by stronger sources, but they cannot count toward the initial meeting of GNG. Delete. Bearcat (talk) 16:25, 8 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Yet another NN small-town mayor. -- Necrothesp (talk) 13:50, 9 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Being a Mayor for a few years of a town of 20,000 is obviously not grounds for keeping per WP:POLITICIAN. AusLondonder (talk) 22:49, 10 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - Fails WP:GNG (per search engines), and WP:NPOL. Onel5969 ^{TT me} 18:52, 13 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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