Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dan Rivera

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The result was delete. The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 16:10, 31 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Dan Rivera[edit]

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NN Mayor of a small-ish city. I see nothing that gets him to WP:NPOL - local political figures must have "signficant coverage". There are a few articles from around the time of his first election which seem quite routine. The article reads like a resume/is highly promotional complete with "mission statemen". Most of the sources are not independent. MB 15:56, 24 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

There are entire independent countries which are not as large as Lawrence. He is the subject of an article in the New York Times not just the local Lawrence newspaper. There have been more recent media articles than show up in references. The Wikipedia biograhy article is and is supposed to be biographical. The article states his experience and the references back it up.RichardBond (talk) 14:40, 26 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. MB 15:56, 24 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Massachusetts-related deletion discussions. MB 15:56, 24 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of New York-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 17:00, 24 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete a non-notable mayor.John Pack Lambert (talk) 14:46, 27 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Lawrence MA is large enough that a well-sourced and genuinely substantive article about a mayor could be kept — but it's not large enough to hand all of its mayors an automatic notability freebie just for existing as mayors, and "well sourced and genuinely substantive" does not describe this article. This is extremely overreliant on primary sources that are not support for notability at all, such as the city's self-published website and the social media profiles of organizations he's directly affiliated with, and while there is a smaller amount that is reliable source media coverage, there is not enough of that. Politicians at the local level of office, including mayors, need to show a depth and volume and range of coverage that marks them out as significantly more notable than most other mayors of most other places, not just routine local reportage of municipal election results and glancing namechecks of their existence in coverage of events that took place in their city. Bearcat (talk) 22:50, 27 July 2019 (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.