Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/James J. Eagan

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The result was delete. Consensus to delete established prior to relisting has not been altered by any post-relisting activity. BD2412 T 04:14, 15 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

James J. Eagan[edit]

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Local politician that fails to meet notability guidelines both as a politician and as a figure. His tenure in Florissant, Missouri (population 52,158) had no unusual events to warrant significantly different coverage than any other local politician. Nor does his law enforcement career arise to such a level. This discussion will be added to the Missouri-related and the politicians-related deletion discussions Mpen320 (talk) 23:09, 27 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Added to Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Politicians and Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Missouri.--Mpen320 (talk) 23:29, 27 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Delete mayors of suburbs of major cities are almost never notable, and nothing here suggests this would be one of the extremely rare exemptions to that rule.John Pack Lambert (talk) 20:51, 28 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Mayor of a non-notable city fails WP:NPOL. KidAd (💬💬) 05:03, 29 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Florissant MO is not large enough to hand an automatic presumption of notability to all of its mayors just for being mayors per se, but this article is sourced nowhere close to well enough to get him over the bar that mayors actually have to clear. Bearcat (talk) 12:37, 29 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - Small town non-notable politician. -- Dane ^talk 04:18, 2 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete non-notable politician. Olaf Kosinsky (talk) 10:53, 2 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Keep with conditions, I would say that the town is large enough to have an article on an impressively long serving mayor, however, it would require editors to find more independent references than are currently present within the article. -Navarre0107 (talk) 17:12, 3 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Comment, I have found and added a few more references and did some major reworking of the writing to make it much more encyclopedic. Due to the report that Mayor Eagan was the second-longest serving mayor in the United States at the time, I'd say it may just have suffecient notability, though additional citations would still be required to confirm this. - Navarre0107 (talk) 17:35, 3 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Relisted to see if Navarre0107's reworking moves the needle.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Haukur (talk) 11:39, 4 August 2020 (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.