Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Joseph Bourque

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The result was delete. Sandstein 20:52, 12 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Joseph Bourque[edit]

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Biography of a mayor, not properly sourced as passing WP:NPOL #2. To be fair, this was created at a time when our inclusion criteria for mayors was "inherently notable if the city has crossed the 50K bar in population", but that was deprecated several years ago -- in 2021, the notability bar for mayors requires a substantial and well-sourced article that establishes the significance of their mayoralty by addressing specific things they did, specific projects they spearheaded, specific effects they had on the development of the city, and on and so forth. But this basically just documents that he existed as mayor, and is referenced entirely to primary sources that aren't support for notability at all, which is exactly the kind of article about a mayor that caused us to deprecate the old "50K = free pass" standard. Nothing here is "inherently" notable enough to exempt the referencing from having to be considerably better than this. Bearcat (talk) 18:43, 19 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 18:43, 19 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Quebec-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 18:43, 19 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Agree with nominator; a BEFORE didn't bring up anything of note. There are mentions in Ottawa newspapers, but they're just that: mentions. He had a few paragraphs about his funeral in a newspaper (available here), but that's not enough. --Kbabej (talk) 00:23, 20 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. Might be hard to find any news articles from back then, so maybe the requirements should be less stricter on this one. Jaxarnolds (talk) 20:06, 22 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Archives of newspaper articles this far back definitely do exist and are accessible to Wikipedians, so mayors from this era aren't exempted from having to pass WP:GNG just because it might take a little bit more work to find sources than it would for the current incumbent. Either enough sourcing is shown to exist, or the article goes away, period. Bearcat (talk) 18:50, 23 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Comment I think it'll be hard to find a lot of links or sources related to him. But I agree with "Bearcat" and there should be some relevant/reliable sources available. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 37.111.137.11 (talk) 14:11, 24 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Less Unless (talk) 10:16, 27 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗plicit 11:55, 4 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Delete fails GNG, per Bearcat. SportingFlyer T·C 13:00, 12 December 2021 (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.