Deletion of Alex Torpey

Comment: This is one of the uncommon cases where a small-town mayor passes , with coverage in The New York Times and NextCity, as well as routine coverage from his immediate area. Some of the coverage is because of his age; some is because of his expertise in social media
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:GNG)

Comment: I've just reviewed the sources again. The political stories are trivial, as you would expect them of any mayor of any age - he didn't get any particular notability bonus because of his age at election, apart from the New York Times article, and I'm influenced by the fact this is only a feature article because of local coverage. Several sources he wrote himself or are sourced to his website or are otherwise primary. The other sources he only gets a trivial mention in. He gets no  presumption, and NPOL requires significant coverage in multiple feature stories - given the NextCity source isn't necessarily reliable, that leaves the Times article. Notability is not met because someone sets records when they get elected - it's set when the media gives significant coverage to those records being set. Furthermore, the keep vote from a very similar username created after this AfD was launched, and calling an AfD an "unconstructive edit" - something strange is going on here
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:NPOL)

Comment: South Orange is part of New York City's metropolitan area, so the existence of some citations to New York City media is not an instant pass to national notability all by itself — it still represents ''local'' coverage in the ''local'' media, not "nationalized" coverage for the purposes of making a smalltown mayor special. Apart from that, however, the rest of the sourcing here is a mix of Essex County's local pennysavers, |primary sources that cannot support notability at all, and glancing namechecks of his existence in sources which aren't ''about'' him, which is not good enough either
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:No original research (WP:PRIMARYSOURCES)

Comment: eesh, this seems to me to be a quality borderline AfD. He fails any  presumption and the only good sources which may meet the NPOL "significant coverage" prong in the article are the New York Times biography and the NextCity article but they probably satisfy that. There's a lot sourced to his own website, many sources only contain trivial mentions of him, it reads very promotionally and needs significant cleanup
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:NPOL)