Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Verne E. Rupright (3rd nomination)

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The result was delete. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 00:25, 14 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Verne E. Rupright[edit]

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Another former mayor of Wasilla. After a certain person who once held this office moved into the national spotlight, suddenly being mayor of a suburb in Alaska was deemed a Big Deal™. However, if we follow the ideas that notability is not inherited and routine coverage does not impart notability there just isn't much here. We've got reports ont he election itself, which would have happened whether this person was involved or not, and a few things that mention that certain other former mayor more prominently than this gentlemen. We're talking about someone who won with 466 votes. Not a 466 vote lead, 466 all together. This just is not a majpr position and unless the mayor is exceptional for some other reason holders of this office are not inherintly notable. Beeblebrox (talk) 04:18, 6 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Fails WP:POLITICIAN as the mayor of a tiny city of less than 9,000 people. Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 05:25, 6 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Ism schism (talk) 20:02, 7 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Wasilla is not large enough to hand an automatic WP:NPOL pass to all of its mayors just because mayor, in and of itself — while it's true that the town has one former mayor who quite obviously passes NPOL, she does that for going on to hold a different NPOL-passing office after serving as mayor of Wasilla and not because mayor of Wasilla per se. So everybody else who was mayor of Wasilla before or after her does not get to inherit an inclusion freebie from her — and while there is a little bit of nationalized coverage being shown here, even that coverage is entirely about him commenting on That Other Person rather than about him mayoring. So even that coverage speaks to her notability, not to his. Bearcat (talk) 16:06, 8 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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