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Politicians

Ryan Harrison (politician)

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WP:POLOUTCOMES as an unelected candidate. Additionally, coverage does not show this individual meeting WP:GNG, with independent, potential significant sources being solely from The Advertiser (Adelaide) Yoblyblob (Talk) :) 23:06, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Keep – Ryan Harrison is a notable South Australian political figure who contested the seat of Unley in the 2022 state election as the endorsed Labor candidate. He achieved 32.1% of the primary vote and brought the margin to just 2.2%, resulting in the largest primary vote swing to Labor in the seat’s history (an 8.8% increase), according to data from the Electoral Commission of South Australia.

In 2025, following a refusal by the Labor Party to re-endorse him—despite his campaign success—Harrison founded and officially registered a new political party, *For Unley*. This party was gazetted by the South Australian Electoral Commissioner and formally published in the Government Gazette (No. 42, 4 July 2025): https://www.governmentgazette.sa.gov.au/2025/July/2025_042.pdf

Harrison is actively campaigning for the 2026 state election, and his continued political activity, creation of a registered political party, and historic primary vote swing meet the standards of WP:POLITICIAN and WP:GNG. I intend to continue improving the article with independent, verifiable sources and maintain an encyclopedic tone. Aussiecontributor (talk) 23:35, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Aussiecontributor your comment was simply moved to the bottom, not removed. I undid your duplicate comment that was added at the top of the page Yoblyblob (Talk) :) 00:38, 19 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Oseleye Ojuka

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Doesn't meet WP:NPOL. Regional party official and had an unsuccessful primary campaign for a governorship. The first source cited is a passing mention, the second is about his primary bid, it's not nothing but there's nothing else that I can find that rises to WP:SIGCOV, just occasional brief quotes in news articles. Here2rewrite (talk) 20:07, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete: He's Christian, runs a business and didn't qualify for an election... That's about the extent of this article. Very much non-notable. Even the coverage in the article is rather limited. Oaktree b (talk) 20:24, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Mohamed Yaseen

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Fails WP:NPOL and WP:BIO. A WP:BEFORE shows limited coverage, and there isn't any evidence that subject warrants a standalone article. Also fails WP:SIGCOV. CycloneYoris ^talk! 08:20, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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hello, this article is based on a deputy minister currently sworn in to his position the presidential office links and ministries official website links of where his appointments are is a testimony and proof to his position maldives is a small country and we rely mostly on government resources to conclude the authencity and verify the claims sir. please have a thorough view. I understand there is not much sources or cites to highlight, could you please tell me how can I proceed ? NormadicEditor (talk) 09:44, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
he is in the current cabinet of president muizzu´s with evidence to the publication of presidents office links verifying his stance. which is the official website of the goverment, fisheries is the biggest sector of our country and his appearance on wikipedia is required for maldivians as this determines information they want about their cabinet. especially someone holding a position in fisheries ministry. NormadicEditor (talk) 09:48, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep under WP:NPOL as a government minister in the Maldives. Moondragon21 (talk) 21:53, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

James Osyf

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Non-notable individual running for public office. Fails notability metrics in WP:BIO and WP:NPOL. Recreate should he be elected next year. ThisUserIsTaken (talk) 22:22, 17 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete: There is coverage [1], but he's a navy sailor running for office, I don't see anything to meet notability. Very routine career. The article now is barely more than a few sentences. Oaktree b (talk) 23:37, 17 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Delete fails WP:GNG and WP:NPOL. Mztourist (talk) 02:59, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Or possibly redirect to an election page. He has zero military notability. Intothat darkness 13:20, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to 2026 United States House of Representatives elections in Virginia#District 2 as the expected ATD for a random candidate. BottleOfChocolateMilk (talk) 14:43, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to the election page, as per BottleOfChocolateMilk, and a common outcome as an ATD. Bearian (talk) 20:48, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Georgina Downer

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Last AfD was no consensus Fails WP:NPOL, has only been a political candidate. Also WP:NOTINHERITED, a lot of coverage refers to her as the daughter of Alexander Downer. LibStar (talk) 01:28, 17 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Redirect to Downer family. Notability is not inherited and as a failed candidate for political office, they would not meet NPOL. I'm not seeing enough here to say that their journalism or diplomatic careers meet notability standards.

Bkissin (talk) 13:30, 17 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep as a perennial candidate such as Sharron Angle. In the alternative, merge selectively and redirect to her family's article. Bearian (talk) 14:52, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep: as a candidate he is notable Monhiroe (talk) 18:06, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Unsuccessful candidates don't meet NPOL. Obviously you haven't read this article as the article subject is female. LibStar (talk) 00:18, 19 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete or redirect - had to think about this one, but she is not a perennial candidate - she ran twice and attracted some media because of her family ties, and we say nothing about her that isn't the fact she lost two elections in two years. There is nothing here that can't be covered in the pages on the election or on her family's article. SportingFlyer T·C 22:46, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Dragan Đorđević

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Article about a person who ran for the Serbian Presidential Election in 2004 and got 0.19% of the votes. Created in 2004, but still a stub to this day, because there is nothing else to find about this person. No sources are provided for the few information the article gives, and I could also not find anything about him online. Almost all wikilinks linking to the page are misdirections, assuming the link target is a futsal player of the same name. Not even the political party he ran for has a Wikipedia article, and it seems to be non-notable, given that it is not even mentioned in List of political parties in Serbia. To summarize, subject does not meet WP:GNG. CaptainOlimar42 (talk) 16:51, 16 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete. The nomination sums it up well. --Mpen320 (talk) 20:17, 16 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to 2004 Serbian presidential election, per above. Bkissin (talk) 14:07, 17 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to 2004 Serbian presidential election, not notable.--Staberinde (talk) 19:27, 17 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ishay Hadas

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A brief glance at the article will reveal that this person is a minor Israeli political activist, who has also done some undistinguished work in their television industry. The sources include several interviews with him and hardly establish notability. A parallel article in Hebrew was deleted following a vote, and two consecutive attempts to nominations for restoration did not garner sufficient support. I find the use of English Wikipedia as an alternative venue unsavoury. AddMore-III (talk) 18:54, 14 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. Significant and sustained non-trivial coverage exists of both his social and political activism. For example, and in addition to the refs in the article, the BBC and Ynet reported the former ([2] and [3]) and The Times of Israel and Middle East Eye reported the latter, calling him "a prominent anti-government protester" ([4] and [5]). Dorsetonian (talk) 19:25, 14 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The "social activism" concerns a single Ethiopian woman. I'd hardly call that notable. As to that massive political activism, being arrested while hanging a sign and then being briefly mentioned in the news is quite negligible. AddMore-III (talk) 19:56, 14 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
You may consider the social activism to be non-notable, but I am persuaded otherwise by the existence of coverage by the BBC and others. Similarly, you may regard the political activism to be negligible but the news articles do not so lightly dismiss him - this was no one-off arrest for posting a sign; The Times of Israel article states that he is "one of the organizers of a weekly demonstration" and the Middle East Eye calls him a "prominent" protester. The argument that the presence of the article is "unsavoury" seems to me to be a clear expression of "I don't like it", but that is not a valid reason for deletion. Dorsetonian (talk) 21:56, 14 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Meets GNG for reasons stated above. --Omer Toledano (talk) 06:00, 15 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Nirmal Mahato

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Non-notable politician, fails Wp:NPOL. No wp:SIGCOV is found except few news articles revolving around his murder case. His murder case could pass the notability as an event but not this biography. Zuck28 (talk) 17:09, 13 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Kethamreddy Vinod Reddy

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Recent AfD by Sharkslayer87 was closed as a soft delete, but rationale still holds: "Fails WP:NPOL and WP:GNG — has not held public office and lacks significant coverage in reliable, independent sources." Article was created by, and the deletion was challenged by the same COI/UPE editor. Onel5969 ^{TT me} 17:46, 12 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete: Being appointed as a [state general secretary] or general secretary of a political party does not meet the criteria for WP:NPOL, and the subject also fails to meet WP:GNG. Baqi:) (talk) 06:17, 13 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: No evidence of notability. (Small rant: this is silly; a previous, poorly-attended AfD results in 'delete', that is challenged as 'soft', no improvement whatsoever is made, and here we are again at AfD – complete waste of the community's time. End of rant.) -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 06:27, 13 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: Agrees with the nominator and the comments above, the subject is not Notable as of now. Taabii (talk) 15:02, 13 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Taabii: by "the subject is Notable", did you by any chance mean to say not notable? -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 15:13, 13 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I was writing 'not notable' but wrote 'not' and added 'able' after that, I didn't wrote another 'not'. Sorry for my mistake, I'll be focused from next time. Taabii (talk) 15:16, 13 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per WP:POLOUTCOMES - I can't recall ever keeping an article about a youth president or chairman, except for one who later went onto a notorious, racist career bordering on criminal. The sourcing is the usual party websites, social media, and deprecated media. Bearian (talk) 18:40, 13 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Julie Lorenz

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WP:NPOL presumes in favor of statewide officials, but there is some ambiguity in AfDs on if that counts for appointees. Personally, I interpret this as elected officials and a small number of appointees (i.e. appointed attorneys general). Others believe a governor's cabinet members are included. I do not believe we should presume notability for the reasons in my personal essay. After a number of searches, I do not believe the subject is notable.

Newspaper searches revealed passing mentions of WP:ROUTINE funding announcements and grant awards. Similarly, an EBSCOHost search revealed a lot of passing mentions in industry-specific publications.

I also searched on the Transportation Research Board's website, EBSCOHost, and Google Scholar, to see if she could meet WP:AUTHOR. The group authorship on TRB contributions make determining if contributions can meet #1 and #2, but I think that is a moot point #3 and #4 are not met for what does not appear to be a large sample of work.

On the note of the TRB: She has served on the national board of the TRB (what that service entails I am unsure) and she did win the George S Bartlett Award in 2022. WP:ANYBIO notes winning awards as non-independent sources note this as a prominent award. However, a corporate bio states she won the award for leading development of a national vision for transportation for state DOTs, which was unanimously approved by all 52 state and territory departments of transportation in October 2022. TLDR: An organization gave her an award for making their own plan. Other award winners with Wikipedia articles either qualify as national politicians, or are individuals like Edward N. Hines and Francis B. Francois where unique innovative approaches to transportation are far more apparent.

The subject lacks significant coverage in reliable sources and I don't think winning the George S. Bartlett Award meets ANYBIO #1 (which in of itself would not guarantee notability). Mpen320 (talk) 03:08, 12 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete: No SIGCOV in RS. No major contributions. — Itzcuauhtli11 (talk) 17:41, 17 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Li Qi (politician, born 1969)

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Searches did not turn up enough in-depth coverage from independent, reliable sources to support meeting WP:GNG. Nor do they meet WP:POL. Onel5969 ^{TT me} 19:59, 6 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete unless Chinese language sources are found. Current coverage does not show sigcov Yoblyblob (Talk) :) 20:39, 6 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
All the sources cited in the article are Chinese language sources. - Amigao (talk) 17:51, 11 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
~~Keep meets NPOL by virtue of being a member of the 13th National People's Congress[6] This source and the political office are already in the zh.wikipedia article[7].~~ Oblivy (talk) 05:11, 7 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I could be incorrect, but I do not think this person is the same person as the one in the article you linked for zh wikipedia. They don't have the same name in latin or chinese characters. Li Qi is referred to as "he" while the 李静 article says she is female. They are listed with different birth months and represent separate provinces. This is not to say Li Qi is not notable, but that they aren't the same as the person you linked. Ike Lek (talk) 03:11, 14 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Agree with Oblivy. He is holding a political position and based on the available references on zh.wikipedia. Gepeas (talk) 16:54, 13 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - it could be the translation program, but there is no politician named Li Qi in the source provided by Oblivy. There's a "Li Qiang", a "Li Qiuxi", and a "Li Qilin". Using "李琦", the Chinese version in the current article, and an un-translated version of the article, yields zero results.Onel5969 ^{TT me} 19:34, 13 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep I totally agree with Onel5969, sources cited in the article do not yield a result about any Li Qi. Cameremote (talk) @gonisulaimann 22:29, 13 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry, then why did you !vote keep? Onel5969 ^{TT me} 22:31, 13 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Relisting comment: NPOL is a strong claim to notability but there seems to be some doubt whether this person meets it: there is evidence of mismatched identity
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Keep. I've added two more sources to the article. I think it barely meets GNG based on the sources now in the article. On the concerns about mistaken identity above, I agree that this article about the NPC does not seem to mention Li Qi; I can't find any evidence that he was in the NPC. The Chinese Wikipedia article linked above seems to be about a different person, Li Jing (李静) rather than Li Qi (李琦). —Mx. Granger (talk · contribs) 13:35, 14 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Comment agreed that is an article about a different person, from another province. Apologies and I've struck my above comment and vote. The guy was county party chairman and provincial trade union boss. Is that enough for NPOL? With respect, the sources added by @Mx. Granger are fantastic for verifiability but I don't see anyone talking independently about him. Oblivy (talk) 15:12, 14 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Those positions would not meet NPOL, so GNG still needs to be shown Yoblyblob (Talk) :) 22:00, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hootan Dolati

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He is not notable. I couldn't even find him in news, Google (actually was mentioned in some posts about being in prison but not enough) or other search engines. Esteghlal Tehran Fans (talk) 02:51, 6 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Keep - Nothing seems to have changed from the previous AfD, and the nominator's account seems questionable. Warrants investigation. – Ike Lek (talk) 22:04, 13 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Dawn Evans

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Non-notable person who, while elected to the state legislature, left the state before taking office, fails GNG. Talthiel (talk) 00:04, 4 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Keep: WP:NPOL says that notability "applies to people who have been elected to such offices but have not yet assumed them". So, even though she never took office, I believe the article has sufficient notability.

Notaoffensivename (talk) 06:14, 4 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The thing is she will never assume office, she left the state before she could. They even held a special election recently because her leaving caused the seat to be vacant upon the opening of the 2025 New Hampshire legislative session. Talthiel (talk) 15:07, 4 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete. If she never held office and never will due to the aforementioned special election, I fail to see how she is notable enough to require an article. MayhemStoppingBy (talk) 18:47, 4 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to 2024 New Hampshire House of Representatives election. Yue🌙 22:41, 4 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep I created this page per WP:NPOL which says that notability "applies to people who have been elected to such offices but have not yet assumed them". Moondragon21 (talk) 15:29, 5 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The key word is "yet". Evans will never assume office as she left the district to live elsewheree, and bar being elected in that new area, she is otherwise not notable. Talthiel (talk) 15:17, 5 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Does meet WP:NPOL, when it states: "This also applies to people who have been elected to such offices but have not yet assumed them", which this sentence specifies winning an election to a notable seat, but haven't been seated which this can clarify Evans being notable. There is the list List of members-elect of the United States House of Representatives who never took their seats, and all of them have blue links, and the list includes people who have not held offices before and were just member-elects to their first public office that they won the election for. MoviesandTelevisionFan (talk) 20:40, 5 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: WP:NPOL question aside, are additional sources likely to exist for WP:NOPAGE purposes? If all the article can ever say is "X is a politician who was elected in Y year, but refused their seat", then a redirect to the election article with a note they refused to be seated is sufficient. My experience with writing articles for NH state representatives, of which I have done several, is that non-incumbent/non-controversial candidacies themselves typically do not receive much coverage due to the nature of the state house. Curbon7 (talk) 23:32, 6 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
This is what I was thinking too. Certainly passes WP:NPOL, but we should consider a redirect per NOPAGE. I had a challenge even finding significant coverage that explained the subject's refusal to be seated and minimal coverage about the election itself. As examples, the article (as it existed on July 6), has a mention that the subject is a small business owner, but nothing more and there are certain attestations attributed to the local Democrats page, which I wasn't able to find a better source. - Enos733 (talk) 02:13, 7 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect Based on my above comment. Curbon7 (talk) 20:53, 15 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Redirect to 2024 New Hampshire House of Representatives election. Article will be a permastub and NOPAGE better applies in this case. मल्ल (talk) 16:35, 11 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to 2024 New Hampshire House of Representatives election as an alternative to deletion. As far as the part of WP:NPOL stating "applies to people who have been elected to such offices but have not yet assumed them", I believe that is meant to clarity it is not a violation of WP:CRYSTAL to create an article for a state legislator-elect and thus we can avoid numerous AfDs for people who will (in 99.9% of cases) take office within a few weeks. I do not believe it means that every state legislator-elect is inherently notable even when there is a lack of significant coverage in reliable sources. I consider this a BLP1E situation (if that) and so I think a redirect is the best approach. Such an approach is also in line with WP:NOPAGE. --Mpen320 (talk) 15:32, 15 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Mario Kranjac

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Former gubernatorial candidate who got 2% in the Republican primary and former mayor of a town with a population of ~5,000. Obviously not enough for a WP page, and I don't see any reason to think he passes GNG either. Most sources cited on the page are ROTM coverage and passing mentions in articles about the gubernatorial race. I'd support a redirect to 2025 New Jersey gubernatorial election. BottleOfChocolateMilk (talk) 21:12, 2 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep: I see an abundance of sources that contribute to WP:GNG. Local-level politicians can lose an election, thereby not being inherently notable under WP:NPOL, but still be very much notable under WP:NBASIC. From what I can see, the subject of this article has received plenty of substantial coverage in a wide variety of publications. The article is actually pretty decently well written, too. MediaKyle (talk) 21:46, 2 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Keep he had coverage before he ran due to his time as mayor. Scuba 01:17, 3 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. Meets WP:GNG. Knox490 (talk) 14:55, 4 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per WP:NPOL and WP:GNG and WP:MILL. He very clearly fails our tests for political officials, as the mayor of a small, albeit very nice, suburb of New York City, which I've been to. We routinely delete articles of statewide candidates, of both parties. As any person, he hasn't really done anything. There are tens of thousands of local officials in New Jersey alone, and he has yet to do anything significant to warrant coverage nationwide. 100% of his news coverage has been local media and blogs. As a Republican in 2025, he's literally run of the mill: 99% of current Republican officials support Trump and his OBBB, and the MAGA movement according to recent polls has 85% to 90% of rank and file Republican support. If he was campaigning for a balanced budget amendment, or was vocally against Trump, then he'd be notable. To paraphrase the old adage, man bites dog is news, but GOP local official supporting MAGA isn't news. I would not oppose a redirect as per nom. Bearian (talk) 23:39, 4 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - has a huge wealth of coverage, meeting WP:GNG.

Ike Lek (talk) 01:55, 9 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per Bearian's reasoning in part. Local politicians will always receive local coverage and therefore the coverage bar is higher to pass WP:GNG. Best, GPL93 (talk) 17:52, 9 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, I'm in accord with your reasoning. It's like a Venn diagram. Bearian (talk) 18:07, 9 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to 2025 New Jersey gubernatorial election as a valid ATD. --Enos733 (talk) 03:14, 10 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Redirect to 2025 New Jersey gubernatorial election. Wikipedia is not the news. A majority of citations are election coverage of which the election is the subject and the candidate is secondary so I don't see significant coverage. He got 2% of the vote, so passing any sort of test of historical significance is very unlikely. While local elected officials are neither inherently notable or inherently not notable, only four sources relate to his local political career. It is not encyclopedic to give a subject an individual Wikipedia article because they renamed City Hall or sued the state in which they are in once. Some in this AfD note the wide amount of coverage. The New Jersey Globe, which has press corps credentials, is fifteen of 40 sources. There are diverse sourcing issues when 37% of the total sources are from one publication. This is before reviewing that some sources are not independent and others are questionable. For example, Shore News Network is almost certainly not reliable. It lacks bylines and appears to use a virtual mailing address. It also has a "submit news" feature that I am confident based on the lack of bylines and no press-association membership, is just used to launder press releases. The remainder of the article is the use of a Institute of World Politics press release to build a biography of every life event. Also, one of the forty citations is an explanation of who cohosted something with the College Republicans. Totally unrelated to the subject.--Mpen320 (talk) 19:07, 15 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to the 2025 NJ page. Focusing only on sources not related to the campaign, does not show enough for notability. Yoblyblob (Talk) :) 18:10, 16 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Elizabeth Tisdahl

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Former mayor of a city with a population of ~75k. I don't think that's an inherently notable position, and based on the ROTM news coverage cited, it doesn't seem like Tisdahl rises above any other mayor in terms of notability. BottleOfChocolateMilk (talk) 18:55, 26 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Politicians, Women, and Illinois. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 19:11, 26 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. The notability of a mayor isn't contingent on the population of the city per se, but on the ability to write and reliably source content about her work: specific things she did, specific projects she spearheaded, specific effects her leadership had on the development of the city, and on and so forth. Content and sourcing of that type is present here — although obviously more would be welcome if possible, this is already considerably better than the "So-and-so is a mayor who exists, the end" approach that's much more likely to get a mayor's article deleted. Bearcat (talk) 15:37, 30 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Keep. Satisfied WP:GNG. --Altenmann >talk 03:08, 4 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - She doesn't need to be more notable than the other mayors as long as she meets WP:GNG. Ike Lek (talk) 06:27, 5 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Monhiroe (talk) 08:03, 6 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Fails WP:NPOL. A local politician of small city with less than 80,000 people with only routine coverage. Aneirinn (talk) 03:00, 8 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. I do consider Evanston to be a regionally significant city so the idea of its mayor having an article is not absurd (as opposed to say writing one for a mayor of Golf, Illinois). However, WP:DIVERSE states that articles from the same publication should not count as more than one citation. I do understand that any elected official's news article citations will be mostly from their area, but I do not think it can be said to meet WP:DIVERSE if the sources are exclusively from their area. The only independent citations involving the subject are the Chicago Tribune and the local university's student newspaper. I believe the single piece from Evanston Now that relies too heavily on the subject for its information. Judge for yourself. If WP:ROUTINE coverage of events including the subject limited to newspapers serving the metropolitan area in which the City is located meet GNG, it would render WP:NPOL meaningless and turn Wikipedia into an open-source Ballotpedia. Basically, I think Evanston mayors who are not Biss are a bit of an edge case, but this subject does not end up on the edge of retaining the article.--Mpen320 (talk) 14:40, 8 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Redirect to List of mayors of Evanston, Illinois where the subject is listed. While I see an attempt to write about the specific work she accomplished as mayor, I don't think the sourcing is sufficient, as much of the sourcing is closer to routine rather than contextualized (is the subject's order to close a college bar and a proposal to change the number of unrelated people staying in one house sufficient to understand how she helped developed the city?). --Enos733 (talk) 05:09, 11 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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