Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lewiston, Maine City Council
City councils are a  thing: every city that exists at all has a body to govern it, so they can't all be handed an automatic presumption of notability just for existing in the ''absence'' of enough |reliable sourcing about them to clear  — and it's vastly overstating things to claim that the city council plays a prominent role in state politics, because the city council has no authority at all three feet outside the city limits. So it's not enough to just assert that this city council plays a more prominent role than other city councils — you need to show the ''sources'' which ''tell'' us that that's actually true. A city council's notability or lack thereof is not based on where it ranks in a population contest — it's based on whether or not reliable source coverage ''about'' the council can be shown to support some actual ''substance''. What we're looking for, to justify an article about a city council, is not miniature BLPs of the incumbent councillors — we're looking for content about the council ''as a council'', such as its voting structure and some evidence of notable decisions and on and so forth. Portland's isn't better than this, but  is not a valid argument that this has to be kept — rather, you may just have made the case that Portland's needs to be deleted too. The city's article can and should contain some basic content about its municipal government, yes, but the key is to add it, not to use its lack as a reason why this is needed as a standalone article
— User:Bearcat, 22:59, 26 February 2018 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:MILL||WP:RS||WP:ORGDEPTH||WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS (Wikipedia:Run-of-the-mill)