Deletion of Barbara Brenner (politician)

Comment: lacks the sort of IMPACT or  that could make a county-level politician notable
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:SIGCOV)

Comment: County council is not a level of office that satisfies . The lowest level of office that automatically guarantees a Wikipedia article to every holder of that office is the ''state'' legislature, not county anything — but the sourcing here is pretty much the |routine level of coverage that any local officeholder could simply be ''expected'' to generate in the local media. Most of it, in fact, namechecks her existence while not being substantively ''about'' her to the required degree — and while there are a few that are substantively about her, there aren't ''enough'' of those. To be deemed notable just for serving as a county councillor, the bar she would have to clear is that she could be shown as significantly ''more'' notable than most of the tens of thousands of other county councillors across the United States and Canada and England and Ireland who ''don't'' have Wikipedia articles — but the sourcing here isn't demonstrating that at all
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:NPOL||WP:ROUTINE)

Comment: Delete WP:POLOUTCOMES states local politicians often meet the standard for notability when "if they have received national or international press coverage." All of the reliable sourced material is local in nature and appear to no be "significant press coverage" ("A politician who has received "significant press coverage" has been written about, in depth, independently in multiple news feature articles, by journalists" - 
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:NPOL)

Comment: Can any of the delete !voters explain why a '''redirect''' to Whatcom County Council#Councilmembers per  is not preferable to deletion? Regards
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Deletion policy (WP:ATD)

Comment: per  and {{U|SoWhy
Stance: merge
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Redirects are cheap (WP:CHEAP)

Comment: I agree that county council members do not automatically get notability, however this person is certainly more notable than the average county councillor. Whatcom County, Washington|Whatcom County has a population of over 200,000 people (ranking 306 out of 3000+ counties in the US), and the council has recently been involved in decisions that have national and global impactshttps://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/washington/articles/2017-03-22/whatcom-county-extends-moratorium-on-crude-oil-exportshttp://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/coal-issue-dominates-whatcom-county-election-but-nobodyrsquos-talking-about-it/. As a council member, this person is notable as a pivotal swing vote, and for her unusually long tenure on the council, and for being the only woman on the council. I know that these are all very marginal arguments, but we should error on the side of providing more information to potential readers, rather than to aggressively follow  as a rule rather than a guideline. I don't see the harm in keeping this page and letting it continue to grow, while watching it closely. This is all publicly available information, but there is no place to get all of this information in one place from a neutral source, other than on Wikipedia. Why not allow Wikipedia to be a source of information to help voters be more informed
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:NPOL)

Comment: partly as the devil's advocate).  This does meet .  "If a topic has received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject, it is presumed to be suitable for a stand-alone article or list."  The news coverage is both local in nature and , but neither of those are relevant for GNG; it discusses her (25+ year) history on the council thoroughly.  As far as , "Major local political figures who have received significant press coverage." is likely
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:GNG||WP:MILL||WP:NPOL)

Comment: doesn't pass  or 
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:POLITICIAN||WP:GNG)