Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of mayors in Alberta

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The result was delete. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 05:16, 30 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

List of mayors in Alberta[edit]

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Pursuant to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of council leaders in the United Kingdom, where a comparable list was deleted for similar reasons, these suffer from a maintainability problem that outweighs their benefit. The idea here was that every town or city in all of Canada that has mayors (or mayor-equivalent positions such as "reeve" or "warden") could list its current incumbent mayor somewhere -- in actual practice, however, we're actually staying on top of updating these in a timely and effective fashion only for the major cities where mayoral elections, resignations and/or deaths actually get reported as national news. In the smaller towns we frequently miss the boat when they change mayors, because that doesn't get as widely reported -- and furthermore, there are also many smaller towns which have still never actually been added to these lists at all. (British Columbia's list is especially, but not uniquely, terrible on that second point. Also terrible: Manitoba's most recent municipal elections were held in 2014? No, 2018 actually, so that just proves that we're not actually updating the lists.) And furthermore, since mayors do not all get automatic passes of WP:NPOL just for existing as mayors, these function primarily as long lists of mostly non-notable people without Wikipedia articles to link to, which really limits their value.
By comparison, the United States does not have similar incumbency articles for List of mayors in California or List of mayors in Illinois or List of mayors in Florida -- what they have instead is a single List of mayors of the 50 largest cities in the United States, which is much more manageable (and helpful, since the big city mayors are the ones who are actually likeliest to clear NPOL.) And similarly, the UK does not have comprehensive incumbency lists of every mayor in England or Scotland or Wales, but just a defined and manageable list of the directly elected mayors (again, the ones who are most likely to clear NPOL.)
Accordingly, I've proposed at WP:CANTALK that Canada should do something similar: retain a single national list of the incumbent mayors of our 25, 30, 50 or 100 largest cities, but delete all of these attempts at mass inclusionism because we can't effectively maintain them with timely accuracy. The "list of mayors of [Specific City]" lists would not be affected by this, and neither would the base List of mayors in Canada (which is still useful as an index of the specific city lists, even if these incumbency lists are deleted.) Bearcat (talk) 06:50, 23 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 06:50, 23 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 06:50, 23 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists of people-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 06:52, 23 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Alberta-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 06:52, 23 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. As the nom says, these lists are poorly maintained and of little value besides; as so few of the people are notable and lack pages, it is effectively just a bunch of names. I also support the creation of a single national list for the largest cities (I would cap it at 25, which serves as a rough cut-off at 200 000 people). — Kawnhr (talk) 16:31, 23 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete there are too many non-notable mayors to justify these lists.John Pack Lambert (talk) 18:20, 23 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom. Not pertinent to try to keep updated the local leaders of every small community, a national list would be much better. Reywas92^Talk 18:29, 23 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete all per nom and WP:LISTPEOPLE. Most mayors of smaller cities, boroughs or districts are not notable. Ajf773 (talk) 01:35, 25 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. Robert McClenon (talk) 05:14, 27 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Delete all - As a poorly maintained list of people with no articles. Kori (@) 01:49, 28 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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