Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lou Thieblemont

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The result was delete. Kurykh (talk) 08:58, 25 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Lou Thieblemont

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Mayor of small town, with no prior political office. Only notability was changing party registration to vote for Barack Obama in the 2008 Pennsylvania primary election, which was widely repeated throughout the blogosphere as some sort of remarkable event. Other mentions are passing mentions in the local newspaper about routine duties as mayor. FWIW, I did a fair deal of editing on this article to fix all of the omissions and inaccuracies, but I still do not think the subject meets notability guidelines; he clearly fails WP:POLITICIAN, and IMO he doesn't meet the basic criteria either, as there is almost nothing beyond the party change, and even that is of questionable notability. Horologium (talk) 20:21, 10 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Former mayor of a very small town. Coverage of his party switch is not adequate to show notability. Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 23:12, 10 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Pennsylvania-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 18:10, 11 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 18:10, 11 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, —Tom Morris (talk) 23:27, 17 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - lacks coverage to establish notability for this small town mayor. -- Whpq (talk) 18:35, 20 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - I'm of the mind that mayors should have articles, but they have to have some sort of bone thrown in the direction of notability, as opposed to WP:DOGBITESMAN kind of things. If there was a Mayor of Camp Hill, Pensylvania article, or a Category:Mayors of Camp Hill, Pennsylvania category, I'd be willing to assume WP:N - but neither exists. Unfortunatly this fellow is nothing more than a ordinary mayor of a small town, and, barring anything extraordinary about him or his mayorhood, that isn't enough for a Wikipedia article. - The Bushranger _{One ping only} 04:27, 25 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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