Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/James d'Orma Braman

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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) Ron Ritzman (talk) 01:48, 10 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

James d'Orma Braman[edit]

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Unimportant politician who fails WP:N and WP:BIO. Served his time as mayor without doing anything that garnered great attention. Seattle is not New York so he doesn't fit into the WP:N/BIO criteria just by being a mayor, aside from the fact that only half of the other mayors have their own articles. Also the sources used are not neutral (biography by his son) and collide with the article (supposedly served from 1964 to 1969, source states 1968). DasallmächtigeJ (talk) 18:56, 2 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Washington-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 23:32, 2 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 23:32, 2 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep The article is in a less than acceptable state. But the sources are definitely out there. There are quite a few newspaper articles from the 60s and 70s albeit behind paywalls, and the free sources are quite brief.[1] But they are there. The mayor of a city the size of Seattle is highly unlikely to be non-notable. To boot, he was also a senior federal public servant.--Mkativerata (talk) 00:18, 3 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep as per Mkativerata. Edward321 (talk) 14:29, 4 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:03, 9 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. Clearly meets criteria within WP:POLITICIAN as mayor of a major metropolitan city. Cindamuse (talk) 05:02, 9 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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