Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cary, North Carolina mayoral election, 2007

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The result was redirect to Cary, North_Carolina#Mayors. If there's anything worthwhile to be merged from the history, it can be. Black Kite (t) (c) 00:20, 3 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Cary, North Carolina mayoral election, 2007[edit]

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Unsourced, non-notable article about an election in a minor city. Everard Proudfoot (talk) 02:25, 27 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Delete I shoulda just prodded the thing, this does not look terribly notable. I'm going to bed. Don't wait up. Dloh cierekim 02:30, 27 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy Del. As per nom. Nothing more to add. --Whoosit (talk) 03:25, 27 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information, or a directory of every local election in the history of the world. Local elections in towns of 100,000 or so have not generally been accorded any automatic notability in Wikipedia. Evidence is lacking of any kind of coverage other than purely local.Edison (talk) 04:30, 27 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to Cary,_North_Carolina#Mayors, as I don't think it's unreasonable to include the results of the most recent election in the article about the city. I agree this election is not significant enough for an article. Hut 8.5 12:24, 27 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Agreeable to merge if sourcing provided Can't CSD. Elections don't have a CSD. Besides, WP:preserve. Dloh cierekim 13:19, 27 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Sourcing is now provided, so there's no reason this cannot be merged. Don't think WP:Not applies. Dloh cierekim 14:26, 27 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Comment A redirect rather than a merge is appropriate, if any trace is left of this article. I still believe that simply deleting it is more appropriate than merger or redirect. Merger of the contents of the article would give undue weight to the 2007 election if it included more than the name of the winner, comparable to the article's coverage of previous mayors going back to 1871. Notability in Wikipedia is not temporary, and Wikipedia is not a compendium of recent news. Otherwise we would have to include comparable coverage of every one of the mayoral elections over a 126 year period, and that mass of trivial data would grossly unbalance the article about the town, as it would the article on any comparable town. Edison (talk) 16:23, 27 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of North Carolina-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 01:35, 28 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 01:35, 28 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. No need to merge/redirect since the factoid in this article is already mentioned in Cary, North Carolina. Location (talk) 22:17, 28 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete or Redirect, not notable beyond a local level, and already mentioned in Cary, North Carolina's article. --Willthacheerleader18 (talk) 23:44, 28 August 2010 (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.