Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Thomas J. Serra

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The result was delete. Sandstein 12:55, 11 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thomas J. Serra[edit]

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Not tagged as a stub, I stumbled upon this while looking up an archive search for mayoral notability here: [1]. It's been orphaned for several years. A WP:BEFORE search digs up a few things: he was a principal at a school (I assume this is him) [2] and is in charge of a local sports hall of fame in addition to him being mayor, but all of the coverage of him as a mayor is WP:MILL, and the sources that could be used to best flesh out the article are either non-reliable (blogs) or are primary (city website). He fails WP:GNG and as a result WP:NPOL. SportingFlyer talk 07:59, 4 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. MT Train^Talk 08:11, 4 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Connecticut-related deletion discussions. MT Train^Talk 08:11, 4 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Middletown CT is not large enough to hand its mayors an automatic free pass over WP:NPOL #2 just because they existed, but this article is not sourced well enough to get him over WP:GNG. Every mayor of everywhere could always show two pieces of purely local media coverage in their own local newspaper, so that's not enough coverage in and of itself to make a mayor notable. Bearcat (talk) 18:18, 4 June 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.