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The result was delete. czar 03:04, 28 April 2020 (UTC) reply

Bryan Thompson (politician)

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WP:BLP of a smalltown mayor, not reliably sourced as passing WP:NPOL #2. As always, mayors are not automatically notable enough for Wikipedia articles just because they exist -- the notability test for a mayor is the ability to write and source a substantive article that clearly demonstrates that he's significantly more notable than the norm for smalltown mayors. But other than a single deadlinked hit of election-related coverage, the remaining four sources here are otherwise covering him entirely in the context of having once competed on a television game show rather than anything related to politics -- but that just makes him a WP:BLP1E, not a topic of broad or enduring interest who would pass the ten year test on that basis. And that's before you even consider that fully half of the game show coverage is still unreliable sources that wouldn't constitute support for notability even if competing on a game show were a valid notability claim in and of itself. Nothing here, either in the substance or the sourcing, is enough to get a smalltown mayor over the notability bar. Bearcat ( talk) 02:56, 21 April 2020 (UTC) reply

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Bearcat ( talk) 02:56, 21 April 2020 (UTC) reply

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Georgia (U.S. state)-related deletion discussions. Bearcat ( talk) 02:56, 21 April 2020 (UTC) reply

• Delete Fails WP:NPOL - The office is too insignificant. Additionally, the game show is BLP1EVENT at best, and pointless trivia at worst. Hog Farm ( talk) 03:28, 21 April 2020 (UTC) reply
• Delete a non-notable mayor of a place that is not large enough to make the mayor default notable. John Pack Lambert ( talk) 14:31, 21 April 2020 (UTC) reply
• Delete. Fails WP:NPOL as he was the mayor of a small town. Local politicians of small towns are generally not accepted. Lefcentreright Talk (plz ping) 16:59, 21 April 2020 (UTC) reply
• Delete clearly fails notability requirements. Mukedits ( talk) 18:32, 21 April 2020 (UTC) reply
• Weak Keep small town mayors can be notable under certain circumstances, and his appearance on the game show/the live coverage of it in his hometown push him just over the edge imo. WP:NPOL Epluribusunumyall ( talk) 00:56, 22 April 2020 (UTC) reply

The game show just makes him a WP:BLP1E. If the most substantive thing that can be said about him is that he once appeared on a game show, rather than anything politically significant, then that's not how you make a smalltown mayor special enough to clear the bar in and of itself. Bearcat ( talk) 15:57, 22 April 2020 (UTC) reply

• Delete Appearing on a game show does not make one notable, being a small town mayor does not make one (automatically) notable, combining the two doesn't make one notable. Fails WP:GNG, WP:NPOL. SportingFlyer T· C 20:53, 23 April 2020 (UTC) reply
• Comment appearing as a one time guest on a game show is so far from being even remotely close to making someone notable that even if there were grounds to keep the article, we should probably remove the whole game show appearance part as unneeded trivia. This article is 12 years old, back before 2011 we had crazy, wild west level over creation of articles in Wikipedia. I have been trying to do something about many of the IMDb only sourced articles from that time frame. What I have come to realize is that many of those articles are on people who are notable, although often more notable for acting in venues that IMDb does not cover like stage or radio than TV and film. It is often not easy to find that potential articles, but I guess I will have to up my game. I still am not sure why I get told I should start by "asking for help with sources" when some of these articles have sat with a request for better sourcing for 11 months and remained just IMDb sourced. The same thing happens with Proposed deletions. The article is prodded as just having IMDb as asource, the prod is rmoved but no additional sources are found. The whole thing indicates to me that if I do not want people to throw false claims like I lack historical thinking, I guess because I do not accept that every person who had a billed role in a Hollywood Film is notable, I should just not even try. John Pack Lambert ( talk) 16:56, 26 April 2020 (UTC) reply
• Delete This a case of WP:BLP1E at best. GPL93 ( talk) 18:58, 27 April 2020 (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.