Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/David J. Blackiston

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The result was delete. Enigma^msg 21:07, 24 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

David J. Blackiston[edit]

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Non-notable small town mayor who fails WP:NPOL and WP:GNG. My WP:BEFORE search brought up what appears to be a digitized version of the one source - there's also a possible COPYVIO problem: [1]. SportingFlyer talk 19:47, 17 June 2018 (UTC) SportingFlyer talk 19:47, 17 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. ...William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 20:00, 17 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Maryland-related deletion discussions. ...William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 20:00, 17 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Cumberland MD is not large enough to hand all of its mayors an automatic free pass over WP:NPOL #2 just for existing, but the sourcing here appears to consist solely of his obituary in the town's own local newspaper. That is nowhere near adequate to actually get him over the bar all by itself, however, because it's a type of source that virtually every mayor of everywhere could always show. To make a mayor notable enough for inclusion, we need to be able to write and source significantly more about them than just "(s)he existed, the end". Bearcat (talk) 18:27, 20 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete a one-year term as mayor needs some strong sources to show notability. Next we face the fact that when Blackiston was mayor of Cumberland it was before the early-20th century emergence of the factories that propelled the city to nearly 40,000 people by 1940. It was still a time when the coal mines and railroad workers dominated, and these were not as concentrated in the city itself as the factory workers would be. When Blackiston was mayor there were only 12,000 people in the city. We need actual substantial sources to justify having an article on the mayor of a city this size. I would note that we lack any information on the governmental structure of Cumberland in our article. This is a major omission that ought to be corrected.John Pack Lambert (talk) 04:39, 21 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete No evidence of independent notability. ~EDDY ^{(talk/contribs)}~ 01:57, 24 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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