Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Richard Coston

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The result was redirect to Melbourne Beach, Florida#Mayors. Seraphimblade ^{Talk to me} 01:24, 26 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Richard Coston[edit]

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Under WP:POLITICIAN, a local politician must have received "significant press coverage" to warrant an article. I think this speaks for itself. — Francophonie&Androphilie (Je vous invite à me parler) 22:30, 18 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Weak delete - while a news search (as far as I know, GoogleNews is made up of articles which have been categorised as "news" since the inception of GoogleNews) might not find much, there are a couple of news items in archives that mention him, which you would expect for someone who has been mayor. Simply stating there are no online hits for a guy who retired 15 years ago is a bit unfair. Sources need not be online and we should be conscious of the fact that "online news coverage" is not the same as "coverage" generally and that there may have been significant coverage of the subject of the subject during his time as mayor (the 1980/90s). I'd be uncomfortable about deleting the article of a 1980/90s politician on the basis of a lack of 2012 google hits. That said, there's nothing attached to the article and those few sources I could find could not be considered significant coverage. I would be interested in anything others could find, especially off-line, especially from Florida. Cheers, Stalwart111 01:34, 19 November 2012 (UTC).[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Florida-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 16:05, 19 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 16:05, 19 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to Melbourne Beach, Florida#Mayors. The sub-stub of an article says little more than what is already in the Melbourne Beach article. With a population of 3,101, I don't see that he would likely satisfy WP:POLITICIAN. Mayors of major metropolitan areas would receive significant coverage. Mayors of a small town would likely see local coverage. -- Whpq (talk) 17:22, 20 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect per Whpq, small-town politicians, unless they do something extraordinary or stupid doesn't get the broad coverage we need for WP:GNG Secret ^account 09:16, 21 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Mayor of a town of 3,100 people. We've almost always in the last few years kept mayors of cities over 100,000 population, and sometimes between 25,000 and 100,000, but never this small, unless there are sources for something special in the way of notability . DGG ( talk ) 21:18, 23 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect as above. Stuartyeates (talk) 05:01, 25 November 2012 (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.