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The result was no consensus defaulting to keep and w/o prejudice to a future renomination. Ad Orientem (talk) 23:41, 19 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

2019 Arlington mayoral election[edit]

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(Failed PROD) As Wikipedia is not a newspaper, events with little impact outside a local area should not be given separate articles. While Arlington is a somewhat large city, it is still a suburb that plays a tertiary role in its own metropolitan area. It's unlikely that the result of this local election will have much impact outside of DFW or Texas. SounderBruce 01:16, 2 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep (Article author), though I will make it known that I am the article's creator. I made the article to turn a redlink blue in the Template:2019 United States elections navbox, so in the event of this article's deletion, I will call for the removal of the redlink for Arlington from the above template, along with cities like Colorado Springs (pop. ~450,000), Durham (pop. ~250,000), Greensboro (pop. ~300,000), Hialeah (pop. ~250,000), and West Palm Beach (pop ~110,000) whose mayoral articles would also most likely be put up for AfD. PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) 02:28, 2 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Those cities should definitely be removed. Any city that is not large enough to "clear the neighborhood" (borrowing from the Pluto debate) and claim a metropolitan area of its own is probably not important enough to warrant mayoral election articles. SounderBruce 02:51, 2 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 03:11, 2 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Events-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 03:11, 2 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Texas-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 03:11, 2 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete Small city election fails WP:EVENT, WP:GNG because coverage is ROUTINE and there does not appear to be any national or even statewide attention being paid. One ROUTINE mention in the list of upcoming elections in tje regional daily Fort Worth Star-Telegram, and a story in the local "Arlington" section of the paper. E.M.Gregory (talk) 13:58, 4 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep. 400k is not a "small city". -- Earl Andrew - talk 04:33, 5 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • As mentioned above, while Arlington does have a high population, it is not a primary city in its metr area and is little more than a rather large suburb. 400K in Texas is different from 400K in Wyoming. SounderBruce 06:00, 5 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

• Weak delete I don't agree with the assumption that it has to be at the center of a metro area: Arlington's mayor goes on List of mayors of the 50 largest cities in the United States right above New Orleans and below Minneapolis and governs a decent amount of changing land and population, even if near larger cities. However it is not evident that this election has received substantive media coverage for notability. The other links to smaller cities in the navbox should be removed. Reywas92^Talk 23:24, 5 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

• However, the significant list is List of primary statistical areas of the United States. Despite the fact that Arlington is larger than Reykjavík, at 400,000 it is a small city and the fact that it is one of several cities in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex makes is less significant than if it was the largest in a province or country - despite the fact that the pop. of Arlington is larger than the pop. of the entire country of Iceland. What would make this notable is coverage in major publications outside the metro area. please do ping me to reconsider my opinion if you can find such.E.M.Gregory (talk) 15:27, 6 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete mayoral elections, like U.S. mayors, do not have inherent notability. Every mayoral election should receive coverage somewhere locally, but there's no coverage of this showing it has any impact outside the narrow area of Arlington, Texas. No prejudice on recreation if it becomes even regionally notable. SportingFlyer T·C 20:34, 9 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

• DELETE - Notability is not automatically established in local cases, and generally local (suburban) elections rarely go beyond local coverage or even routine coverage. Acnetj (talk) 11:09, 12 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep but article needs improving. Squeaky Rubber Duck (talk) 00:00, 16 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep Arlington is one of the 50 most populated cities in the United States, there mayoral election has notability.Iamreallygoodatcheckers (talk) 03:45, 19 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge. This is always a possibility. I suggest creating 2019 local elections in the United States. However, I may be biased because I will most likely be running in a local election this year in the United States. However, I am not suggesting my own inclusion in that potential article. PCN02WPS mentioned a few cities that would be pretty ripe for inclusion as well. Glad to have the chance to weigh in here. ―Matthew J. Long -Talk-^☖ 14:37, 19 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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