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The result was delete. 78.26 _{(spin me / revolutions)} 22:59, 20 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Ralph J. Figy[edit]

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City Councilor of a city with a population of 40K. Has not received significant coverage in independent sources and no coverage outside of the local paper. Hirolovesswords (talk) 21:20, 13 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 21:45, 13 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Massachusetts-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 21:45, 13 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - Non-notable mayor of a tiny city. This individual is in no way notable. Meatsgains^(talk) 01:18, 14 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, unfortunately Wikipedia's bar is higher than this. Geschichte (talk) 14:25, 14 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - mayor of a smaller (pop. c. 42,000) city in the Springfield, Massachusetts area, so there's no automatic notability. He doesn't pass my standards anyway. I don't see how he passes WP:GNG or WP:POLOUTCOMES. Bearian (talk) 20:40, 14 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete There is no automatic notability for a mayor for a small city. Local paper coverage appears to be WP:MILL Taewangkorea (talk) 22:23, 14 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Westfield MA is not large enough to hand all of its mayors a guaranteed inclusion freebie just because they exist. The actual notability bar for mayors, even in larger cities, is the ability to write and source a genuinely substantive article about their work in politics, not just the ability to find some information about their private personal lives and then supplement that with technical verification of their election or selection as mayor. But six of the eleven footnotes here are primary sources that are not support for notability at all, and the five that are media coverage are all routine local coverage of the type that every mayor of everywhere can always show, not enough in volume or depth or range to make him a special case over and above other mayors. Bearcat (talk) 13:37, 16 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Non-notable acting mayor of a tiny city. NNADIGOODLUCK (Talk|Contribs) 17:34, 19 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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