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The result was delete. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 19:35, 25 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

List of mayors of Gluckstadt, Mississippi[edit]

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A "list" of one for a very minor function (mayor of a small town of 3,000 people). Fram (talk) 10:39, 18 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Politicians, Lists of people, and Mississippi. Fram (talk) 10:39, 18 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Mississippi classifies Gluckstadt as a "city," the same classification as Jackson the most populous municipality in the state. To be classified as a city, the population need only be over 2,000. For a state that is only 4% urban, Gluckstadt has a very substantial population. It is just shy of being in the top fourth of municipalities in Mississippi in terms of population. Roughly 74% of the 299 municipalities in Mississippi have smaller populations than Gluckstadt including half of the county seats. Gluckstadt is the 28th largest municipality that is not a county seat. Regarding the number of mayors to make a "list," the fact that there is currently only is a moot point. Obviously, in time there will be others. The list is no different than a list in "stub" class where only one item has been provided. Starting the list now makes sense for a number of reasons: !) It makes the list of mayors easier to complete and update, 2) Having researched other cities, it can be extremely time consuming to keep track of elected officials especially when people resign, die in office, or are recalled, 3) One of the functions of WP is to have information readily available for research (deleting that information does a disservice to users), 4) WP also provides information that has been neglected or underreported in other sources. In short, there has been no case made why any WP user would benefit from the list being deleted, but as stated above, there are numerous reasons why it should stay. Deleting it now, will only make the job of re-creating the list once the population increases and more mayors have served the municipality more difficult later. Igbo (talk) 11:43, 18 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
- Hardly anything you say has any bearing on this AfD. Whether Gluckstadt is a city or not? Not important. That many municipalities are even smaller? Yes, and we don't have articles or lists for the mayors of those either. You refer to "The list is no different than a list in "stub" class where only one item has been provided", but we shouldn't normally have any lists with only one entry. Whether the list would need recreating or not in X years time (no reason why he can't stay mayor for 10 years or so) is not really relevant either (yes, deletion now if it would be recreated in a weeks time would be a point to consider, but here?), and it is very doubtful whether having more mayors would make this a notable list topic anyway, considering the limited population of the municipality. A list of non notable persons holding a non-notable position is not a good list topic: but when there is only one entry, it's even worse. Fram (talk) 12:21, 18 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom. This is not a list. --MuZemike 12:29, 18 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete None of the above is relevant – we simply don't do stand-alone articles for political leaders of communities as small as this one. It duplicates Gluckstadt,_Mississippi#Government and serves no further purpose. Reywas92^Talk 17:50, 18 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete The article should be deleted because the content can be contained within the parent article of Gluckstadt (see WP:PAGEDECIDE). The size of a municipality should not be the defining factor whether a stand-alone list is appropriate. Guidelines for notability of a list is described in WP:NLIST, and further described in WP:LISTCRITERIA. --Enos733 (talk) 22:07, 18 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete A list of 1 non notable person? Definitely fails WP:NLIST. LibStar (talk) 22:43, 18 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Per all above! gidonb (talk) 15:34, 23 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per WP:NLIST, WP:SIGCOV, and WP:OUTCOME. A list of one is always deleted. A article implicating BLP with a single source is always deleted. Any article with a single source is suspect to be lacking in significant coverage. I don't see how this would break the very clear consensus. Bearian (talk) 20:50, 24 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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