Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Donna McFadden-Connors

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The result was delete. King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 04:28, 15 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Donna McFadden-Connors[edit]

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The first female mayor of a small city (2010 population under 8K) has only local coverage. Fails WP:BIO and WP:GNG. Clarityfiend (talk) 00:35, 8 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - Fails BIO and GNG. Magnolia677 (talk) 00:59, 8 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Fails WP:NPOL. Local politician with expected local coverage. MB 04:57, 8 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Lepricavark (talk) 05:57, 8 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Pennsylvania-related deletion discussions. Lepricavark (talk) 05:57, 8 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Being the first member of a politically underrepresented group to hold an otherwise non-notable political office is not an automatic inclusion freebie on Wikipedia in and of itself: it can count if she can be shown to have garnered a WP:GNG-passing volume of nationalized coverage for the distinction — but it doesn't count for anything if all you can show is one piece of local media coverage of the type that would still exist regardless of whether she was a man or a woman, given that purely local coverage of local politics always exists. First-female-mayors in small towns are a lot more likely to clear the bar if they were elected and served in the first half of the 20th century, when women holding political office was still rare enough that even a small town in Pennsylvania electing a woman as mayor would get into The New York Times because of the woman angle — but the necessary depth and breadth of coverage is profoundly unlikely to be available for a woman who won election as a smalltown mayor in 2009. Bearcat (talk) 15:25, 8 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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