Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of leaders of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands Shire Council

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The result was redirect‎ to Shire of Cocos (Keeling) Islands. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 06:09, 24 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

List of leaders of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands Shire Council[edit]

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No effective sources. Fails WP:SIGCOV, WP:NLIST. scope_creep^Talk 04:50, 17 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Scope creep, don't you regard World Statesmen.org as a source?

Mbakkel2 (Talk) 05:27 (UTC), 19 June 2023

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Lists of people, Politics, and Australia. Curbon7 (talk) 05:23, 17 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom. One source is the council's website, and the other is a deprecated source. JML1148 (talk | contribs) 06:12, 17 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Comment @Mbakkel2: There is only one blue link on the article and references are very poor. The first reference is non-rs and the second is a website, which is WP:PRIMARY. scope_creep^Talk 07:32, 17 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
For those wondering, WorldStatesmen was deprecated following this discussion. Curbon7 (talk) 08:24, 17 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
It would be a shame to lose this information, but there's no source which specifically covers the entire list that I can find online. The topic clearly meets LISTN I think, we just need to source it properly. SportingFlyer T·C 12:21, 17 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: Shire of Cocos (Keeling) Islands discusses the local government, but for a shire of around 500 people, its leaders are not notable. If not deleted, it should be merged there, but we don't typically compile names of non-notable individuals leading small places. Reywas92^Talk 02:46, 18 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to Shire of Cocos (Keeling) Islands as WP:ATD - agree with Sportingflyer that it would be a sham to lose this information, given external territories of Australia have less coverage overall on Wikipedia. Other local government areas in Australia have a list of mayors on their page - I don't see why this can't. Please don't delete this. Deus et lex (talk) 14:36, 18 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I always wonder if these lists of elected leaders should be judged through the lens of WP:NLIST or WP:SPINOFF. Assuming the information is reliable and verifiable, NLIST looks at the notability of the list as a unique article entry, while SPINOFF suggests when the conditions exists to create a stand-alone article (with the assumption that the information would be acceptable within the parent article). I think that these lists of elected leaders should be seen as valid spinoffs and judged accordingly. --Enos733 (talk) 17:35, 19 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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