Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Brad Luke (2nd nomination)

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The result was delete. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 00:48, 18 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Brad Luke[edit]

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This was previously deleted and, although he has since run for deputy mayor of Newcastle and lost, there is no evidence of anything that would make him notable having occurred since 2010. Grahame (talk) 07:24, 10 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Australia-related deletion discussions. Grahame (talk) 07:30, 10 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. MT Train^Talk 10:35, 10 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Even in cities where we accept the mayoralty as notable, being acting mayor for a matter of weeks between the resignation of one mayor and the proper election of another, solely by virtue of having held the position that would automatically make him "acting" mayor in the event of the incumbent's death or resignation, is not an automatic notability freebie that exempts him from having to already be notable for other reasons besides that and/or actually be reliably sourceable to more than just routine coverage of the by-election campaign itself. But there's no other notability claim being made here, and the sources aren't about Luke so much as they're about the by-election campaign itself, thus not supporting that he's any more notable than any of the other five candidates who also lost the by-election. Bearcat (talk) 14:59, 11 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete being mayor here is not enough for notability, even less so acting mayor for a few weeks.John Pack Lambert (talk) 01:01, 12 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Being mayor of Newcastle is absolutely notable; acting mayor not so much. The Drover's Wife (talk) 17:02, 12 April 2018 (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.