Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/René Matteau

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The result was delete. Sandstein 09:14, 14 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

René Matteau

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Poorly referenced biography of a person notable only as mayor of a midsized city. As always, mayors are not handed an automatic notability freebie just for existing as mayors: Trois-Rivières is certainly a significant enough city that a well-referenced and substantive article about a mayor could be kept, but that's not what this article is: it literally consists of just 16 words stating that he existed, and is referenced entirely to primary sources that are not support for notability at all: the city government's own self-published website about itself, and his death notice on the website of the funeral home that held his funeral. But the notability test for a mayor is not passed just because you can use a couple of primary sources to verify that he existed: it requires some genuine substance about his political significance, such as specific effects he had on the city's development, and it requires reliable sourcing to real media and real books. Bearcat (talk) 17:53, 6 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 17:53, 6 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Quebec-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 17:53, 6 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom. Kolma8 (talk) 17:43, 7 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Fails WP:NPOL Jeepday (talk) 14:56, 10 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Weak keep - mayor of a city of 134,413 that is also a regional centre. Bearian (talk) 02:13, 11 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Mayors aren't extended an automatic notability freebie just because of the city's population size. Regardless of whether it's a city of 134,413, a city of three million or a village of 10, mayoral notability requires the article to be substantive and well-sourced, and no mayor of any city ever gets to keep a badly sourced article which literally just says that he existed, the end. Bearcat (talk) 14:59, 12 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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