Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ken Popove

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The result was delete‎. Owen× ☎ 20:37, 18 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ken Popove

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WP:BLP of a politician, not properly referenced as passing WP:NPOL. As always, mayors are not "inherently" notable just because they exist, and have to be shown to have significant reliable source coverage enabling us to write substantive content about their political impact: specific things they did, specific projects they spearheaded, specific effects their leadership had on the development of the city, and on and so forth.
As written, however, this is strictly on the level of "Ken Popove is a mayor who exists, the end", and features absolutely none of the type of content that an article about a mayor needs to show -- and for sourcing, it's citing purely run of the mill verification of his election victories, with absolutely none of the ongoing "in office" coverage that's required.
Chilliwack is a large enough city that its mayors would be eligible to keep substantively written and well-sourced articles that met WP:NPOL #2, but it is in no sense large or significant enough that he would get an automatic notability freebie on an article that's this inadequate. Bearcat (talk) 15:56, 11 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Politicians and Canada. Bearcat (talk) 15:56, 11 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 19:18, 11 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nomination. BottleOfChocolateMilk (talk) 02:39, 15 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete – Sources are heavily from one news outlet, thus fails notability guidelines. Toadette ^{(Let's discuss together!)} 19:56, 15 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom. AllTheUsernamesAreInUse (talk) 23:24, 16 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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