Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kevin Burns (Illinois mayor)

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The result was delete. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 16:27, 1 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Kevin Burns (Illinois mayor)

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He is not notable enough of a politician to get his own article. There is a lack of sources in most of the article. It contains much outdated information. Needs to be deleted Bbob221 (talk) 16:24, 23 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 19:54, 23 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Illinois-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 19:54, 23 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Delete mayors of places with under 25,000 people are almost never notable.John Pack Lambert (talk) 01:49, 24 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, per WP:BIO "Major local political figures who receive (or received) significant press coverage". Large amount of mentions / coverage in the Chicago Tribune [1]. He has been mayor of an Illinois county seat for over a decade, with coverage as a US Congressional primary candidate as well. --Dual Freq (talk) 12:21, 24 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, I agree he is not notable enough. I live in the area where he is Mayor and he has not held a higher office than Mayor of Geneva. Yes, he has run for higher office, but was unsuccessful. I don't think he plans to run for higher office anytime soon. Plus, Geneva has less than 25,000 people. Both St. Charles and Batavia (neighboring towns) have populations bigger than that, but their Mayors don't have articles. Finally, a lot of the information is outdated and unsourced. I agree this article needs to go. -- NBA2020 (talk) 19:56, 24 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
A population of 21K is not large enough to get a mayor over WP:NPOL #3 just because he exists. If there were a genuinely sizable volume of sourcing here, then things might be different — but of the four sources here, three of them are to his local community weekly newspaper (a source that's not widely distributed enough to get him over WP:GNG all by itself), and the only one that's in a major daily newspaper is just supporting the names of his kids, rather than any substantive content that would have anything to do with making him belong in an encyclopedia, and doesn't appear from its title ("Mayors pick their spots for quiet, communing") to have all that much else to offer. And having been a candidate in a congressional primary doesn't assist his notability, either — a person does not get over NPOL by being a candidate for office (or by being a candidate in a primary), but only by winning the election and thereby holding office. So that counts for nothing, and we can evaluate this only by virtue of the office he did hold — and the office he did hold is not one that gets him into Wikipedia if the sourcing for it is this weak. Delete. Bearcat (talk) 21:35, 24 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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