Deletion of Stubbs (cat)

Comment: Yes, it's a bit of a gag story, but there's enough coverage out there from over the years that I think it meets wp:GNG. He got a relatively decent amount of coverage over the years simply because hehe cat mayor, but it isn't local - http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/17/us/alaska-cat-mayor/index.html CNN, http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/07/17/cat-marks-15-years-as-mayor-of-alaska-town/ Time, and http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/07/15/small-alaska-town-long-time-mayor-is-cat-named-stubbs.html Fox all have articles about him. I could buy  if it was just that brief spurt, but he got headlines in 2013 when he was attacked by a dog - http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/09/04/20330086-honorary-alaska-mayor-clawing-his-way-back-to-health-after-vicious-dog-attack?lite NBC, http://www.cbsnews.com/news/alaska-town-roots-for-feline-mayor-badly-injured-in-dog-attack/ CBS, http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/sep/4/stubbs-cat-mayor-alaska-mauled-dog/ Washington Times, and http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/04/us/alaska-cat-mayor-attacked/ CNN all featured him. Then again in 2014 there was http://www.businessinsider.com/a-cat-mayor-just-announced-his-campaign-for-senate-in-alaska-2014-11 coverage when he "attempted" to run for US Senate. So yeah, I'd say he crossed the bar for notability
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:1E)

Comment: because the topic passes  and has received significant coverage in reliable sources, including national-level news coverage in the United States
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:GNG)

Comment: on the merits, owing to obvious notability and depth of coverage, much of it contemporaneous and predating the subject's death. I'm loathe to bring up any point that might trigger , but the Delete arguments (and the nominator's rationale) remind me of His Royal Highness Emperor Norton|Norton I, Emperor of the United States. It doesn't matter one bit that Norton was emperor of nothing - he was noted as such, with varying levels of seriousness. In this case, it doesn't matter whether the cat was elected as mayor of anything - what matters is that he was noted as such in reliable sources
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions (WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS)

Comment: I'm the honorary Archbishop of Canterbury and the love child of Carmen Miranda and Charles Nelson Reilly, as well as the reincarnation of Rahsaan Roland Kirk.  Of course, such claims have as much basis in fact as most of the "reliably sourced" nonsense found either in the article or in the sources.  Anyone who would argue to keep this garbage is really saying that our ultimate purpose is to provide clickbait to a cherry-picked list of other websites, and that the agenda of said cherry-picked websites automatically becomes our agenda.  I would also invoke , but we've obviously become so much of a news site of late that we have editors mocking fellow editors for raising such concerns ({{Diff|Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Inauguration of Donald Trump protests|761261159|761257323|"Of course we're a bloody newspaper"}}).  Furthermore, this sends the message that I'm wasting my time making positive contributions to the encyclopedia when I could be engineering publicity stunts like this to game the media and hence the encyclopedia, seeing as how the inclusion bar is so low
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (WP:NOTNEWS)