Deletion of Hazen Kimball

Comment: to Mayor of Hoboken, New Jersey. ''The New York Times'' is NOT a "local paper", but it listed him with several others in its "obituary notes" and couldn't be bothered to ascertain his age ("between fifty-five and sixty"), so it wasn't a full-blown obituary. Fails GNG and 
Stance: merge
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:POLITICIAN)

Comment: The nomination's argument is classic  but "''Notability isn't determined by something's quantity of members, but rather by the quality of the subject's verifiable, reliable sources.''"  We have a guy currently at RfA who has been working for years on Snezhnoye, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug|a place with a pop of just over 300 and most everyone seems to think that's wonderful
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions (WP:NOTBIGENOUGH)

Comment: As a major local political leader, with ample coverage in reliable and verifiable sources to establish notability, including an obituary in a national paper of record and coverage in contemporaneous encylopedic sources. Despite its size, Hoboken punches far above its weight, making it a regionally important city, as evidenced here and in the article for the present mayor, Dawn Zimmer. The nominator appears to have prejudged this AfD based on the city's size and has made no mention or taken any consideration of the availability of reliable and verifiable sources or of alternative solutions as explicitly required by . The additional failure to combine a series of such AfDs all based on the same rationalization raises further issues
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion (WP:BEFORE)