Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of mayors of Taunton, Massachusetts
We do not have any rule that ''every'' mayor of a town or city always has to already be bluelinked before we're allowed to create or maintain a list of their names; open-ended lists that are vulnerable to the addition of self-promotional wannabe spam, like a generic list of writers or musicians, can have an "article must already exist" restriction placed on them, but closed-ended lists with tightly defined inclusion criteria, like a list of past and present holders of a specific political office, are not barred from containing redlinked or unlinked names — as long as the person's membership in that defined topic is verifiable, they're allowed to be named in the list whether they have an article or not. Spotchecking some of the articles that do exist, I can see that their actual notability may sometimes be debatable — Taunton isn't large enough to guarantee every mayor an instant free pass over  #2 just because he exists, but ''not'' all of the articles I randomly spotchecked are referenced well enough to ''get'' the subject over the bar — but deleting the list now is putting the cart before the horse. If you have questions about the notability of some or all of the mayors in this list who have articles, then tackle getting those non-notable mayors deleted first, and ''then'' we can revisit whether the list is worth keeping anymore on the basis of however many articles are left once the problematic ones have been canned. But as things stand right now, enough of the mayors in this list ''do'' have articles whether they should or not, and there's no rule that they ''all'' have to have articles before a list of them is allowed to exist
— User:Bearcat, 21:17, 17 August 2019 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:NPOL (Wikipedia:Notability)