Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Municipality of Anchorage Proposition 1, 2018

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The result was keep. TonyBallioni (talk) 20:11, 10 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Municipality of Anchorage Proposition 1, 2018[edit]

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Desired to PROD, but likely to be controversial. For those who are solely concerned about this sort of thing, the article contains no third-party references. Per item D of WP:BEFORE, even among reliable sources, coverage is heavy on opinion pieces. The only real news coverage concerned the proposition making the ballot, which at this point makes it no different than dozens of other initiatives in Anchorage's history. Combine that with the fact that coverage of Anchorage municipal politics in general and the numerous hot-button episodes of LGBT-related politics in Anchorage over the past 40 years is scattershot at best, this smacks of promotion of a current event. Barring unforseen circumstances, nothing of consequence will be known until after the election has concluded. It's quite possible that even that won't amount to something notable. RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions 01:43, 3 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Law-related deletion discussions. MT Train^Talk 03:26, 3 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Alaska-related deletion discussions. MT Train^Talk 03:26, 3 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Improve sourcing and keep— Article as written doesn't demonstrate notability, but there's abundant press coverage dating back to at least July 2017, as well as a recent national media piece highlighting it: [1]. Anchorage is half the residents of Alaska, so I'm disinclined to treat "local" as much less significant than state-level in this instance.--Carwil (talk) 04:36, 3 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Artile is not great as-is. That being said, raw search results from the paper of record in the area suggest that a suitable article can be written and the subject is almost certainly notable. Beeblebrox (talk) 07:27, 3 March 2018 (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.