Deletion of Benjamin G. Blake

Comment: Being the mayor of one of the 20 largest cities in his or her state is not an automatic  pass. Additionally, in order for politicians to meet GNG they must receive more than just routine local coverage. Best
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:NPOL)

Comment: Milford CT is not large enough to confer an automatic notability freebie on its mayors just because they exist — that bar measures only the population of the city itself, not its ordinal size-rank within its own state. But the majority of the references here are |primary sources that are not support for notability, such as raw tables of election results and his "meet your mayor" profile on the city's own |self-published website about itself, and the few that are actually real media are purely |routine local verification that he was elected, and then re-elected, and then re-elected again. That's a type of sourcing that ''every'' mayor of ''everywhere'' can ''always'' show whether they actually clear our notability standards for mayors or not, so it isn't notability-making coverage for a mayor in and of itself: the notability test for a mayor is the ability to write a ''substantive'' article about his political ''impact'', not just the ability to verify that he exists. And just saying there are other sources out on the Google isn't the magic bullet, either: just like the election results themselves, not every web page that happens to have a mayor's name in it is automatically a notability-building source. Mayors can still have their existence namechecked in articles that aren't ''about'' them and thus aren't support for their notability; mayors can still have their names mentioned in blogs and webforums and other unreliable sources that aren't support for their notability; mayors can still fail to receive coverage that expands anywhere beyond just their local newspaper; mayors can still coincidentally happen to have the same name as other people whose coverage is irrelevant to the mayor's notability. So the notability test still isn't just saying there are other hits out on the Google: it involves ''showing'' actual, specific ''examples'' of what you think might be notability-boosting coverage, so that we can actually ''evaluate'' whether they actually boost his notability as much as you think they do
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:No original research (WP:PRIMARYSOURCES||WP:SELFPUB||WP:ROUTINE)