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The result was no consensus. Cirt (talk) 15:13, 17 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Janos Boros

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Likely fails WP:POLITICIAN. He was deputy mayor, not mayor, and while he was a city councillor, did not receive significant press coverage. 3 passing mentions in Evenimentul Zilei, 4 in Cotidianul, 5 in Adevărul, 2 from Mediafax, 0 in Jurnalul Naţional, 0 in Ziua, and 1 in Clujeanul - a newspaper from his own city. Biruitorul Talk 19:57, 10 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

He was the only politician to have served 2 consecutive and successful terms as the vice mayor since Democracy dawned upon Romania.The romanian press has been good sometimes, lukewarm, and mostly bad to him - it is quite obvious as he is from a Hungarian minority. His popularity should not be guaged by the anti-hungarian romanian news media but the Hungarian media. He has not just 12 media mentions as claimed.To understand his popularity and the coverage he got, we should look at the popular hungarian press, Innumerable mentions in "Szabadság", More numerous mention in another Hungarian daily "Krónika", Even more in "umsz" and "Hungarian Human Rights Foundation" citing the effort Janos Boros has made towards upliftment of the Hungarian community in Romania, are but a few. These prove that while it is true that Janos Boros was held in high esteem by the Hungarians and the Hungarian media in Romania as their representative in politics(and hence passes the WP:POLITICIAN muster) and was given significant exposure, the Romanian media ignored and concentrated more on the Romanian politicians. Janos Boros is a noted figure among Hungarians and definitely deserves mention. Thus the attempt to delete his page holds no logic.(Hangakirantalk) 04:15, 11 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Does Janos Boros satisfy WP:GNG:

This IS "Significant" and "Notable" enough to put this debate to rest. (Hangakirantalk) 06:13, 11 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Have changed the content with updated references to comply with both WP:GNG and WP:POLITICIAN. The references in Hungarian media if read properly is proof enough of his Notability and is a noted Politician in Transilvania. Determining the Notability of a minority Hungarian politician based exclusively on Romanian media presentation will definitely lead to a biased view. [[In addition to this, searched for other Romanian(Listed below) Vice Mayors and politicians to see if they have pages on Wikipedia, they do. Most of them have not served amount of tenure Janos Boros has. If they are considered Notable and qualify to be WP:POLITICIAN, then so should Janos Boros. The list:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mioara_Mantale - A Subprefect
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Rene_Yankwich - A US federal judge of Romanian origin
http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mircea-Anton_Silva%C5%9F - Was a Vice mayor of the Forest Filipestii
http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovidiu_Tudorici - Vice Mayor of Câmpulung Moldovenesc.
http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiberiu_Dekany - Vice Mayor of Arad
Hangakiran (talk) 17:00, 16 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Against for it there are a lot of existing Romanian politicians in EN WP with more smaller number of results. For ex. "Gheorghe Taşcă" (286), "Gheorghe Mironescu" (724), "Emil Haţieganu" (1230), "Ştefan Voitec" (1300), "Maria Antonescu" (1770). —Preceding unsigned comment added by Aakmaros (talkcontribs) 22:52, 16 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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