Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Terry Dowdall

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The result was delete. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 16:17, 18 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Terry Dowdall[edit]

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WP:BLP of a person notable primarily as a not yet elected candidate in a forthcoming election and mayor of a small town. As always, people do not get Wikipedia articles just for being federal election candidates: to pass NPOL #1, he would have to win the election and thereby serve as an MP, not just be a name on the ballot. And smalltown mayors don't automatically pass NPOL #2, either: to be considered notable for being mayor, either Essa would have to be much larger than just 21K, or Dowdall would have to show a depth and range and volume of coverage that marked him out as much more special than most other mayors of places this size.
But two of the five footnotes here are primary sources that do not constitute support for notability at all; two more are the routinely expected coverage in a community hyperlocal, which are not notability-clinching sources for a smalltown mayor or a non-winning MP candidate all by themselves, because every smalltown mayor and every non-winning MP candidate can always show a hit or two in their local media; and the last looks stronger on the surface if you only eyeball its URL, but is not actually about him for the purposes of establishing his notability: it just quotes him giving soundbite about a public emergency in an article whose subject is the emergency and not him. As always, getting a person into Wikipedia is not just a matter of showing that his name has appeared in the media two or more times: we also evaluate (a) the depth of how substantively a source is or isn't about him; (b) the geographic range of how widely the coverage is spreading, and (c) the context of what he's getting coverage for -- but none of this is enough.
No prejudice against recreation on or after October 20 if he wins the federal election, but nothing here (either in the sourcing or the substance) constitutes a reason why he would be entitled to have a campaign brochure on Wikipedia today. Bearcat (talk) 15:34, 11 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 15:34, 11 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Ontario-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 15:34, 11 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Non-notable mayor and future federal candidate do not meet WP:NPOL. Use of Wikipedia as free election advertising would violate WP:PROMO. Bkissin (talk) 20:48, 17 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete- small-town mayors do not automatically pass NPOL.--Rusf10 (talk) 02:51, 18 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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