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The result was delete. ♠ PMC♠ (talk) 06:23, 16 March 2021 (UTC)
Pat Burt
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Promotional article for non-notable political candidate. Currently holds minor office, CEO of various non-notable companies. The references are mostly mere notices. DGG ( talk ) 02:39, 9 March 2021 (UTC)
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- Delete per nom - fails WP:NPOL, not otherwise notable. SportingFlyer T· C 13:43, 10 March 2021 (UTC)
- Delete Per nom. Burt doesn't seem to meet WP:GNG with the sources provided. Company involvement isn't very notable either. Redoryxx ( talk) 17:35, 10 March 2021 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. not notable though clearly a successful business person and local public servant. Miaminsurance ( talk) 01:22, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
- Delete. City councillors aren't inherently notable just because they exist; Palo Alto is a council-manager city where the "mayoralty" is a ceremonial position that rotates annually within the municipal council rather than being directly elected by the voters, so just throwing the word "mayor" around doesn't automatically make him more notable than other city councillors; and the sourcing is about half primary sources (the city's and county's own self-published internal reports, etc.) that aren't support for notability at all, and half run of the mill local coverage that fails to establish how he could be seen as more notable than the norm for a city councillor. Bearcat ( talk) 07:01, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
- Delete Palo Alto is a city about half the size of Sterling Heights, Michigan with a mayor who is less clearly notable because he is appointed instead of being directly elected. In both cases the real administrative power is held by the city manager. Even if the mayor of Palo Alto was the actual city manager the city is not large or regonally significant enough that the mayor would be default notable, but with the mayor being merely a figure head, they are clearly not notable for such. David B. Haight was mayor of Palo Alto, but I am not sure it is even mentioned in his biography on Wikipedia. My father was in the Palo Alto Stake of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints when Haight was president of that stake, so I keep information on Haight key in my mind more so than some other people. John Pack Lambert ( talk) 19:22, 12 March 2021 (UTC)
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