Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jim Francesconi
Our standard for the notability of city councillors is not "500K" or "600K" or "largest city in its own state"; it's "internationally famous metropolitan global city on the order of Toronto, New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago or London" — that is, it has to be one of the largest cities in the ''world'', not just the largest city in its own state or province or county. For ''any'' city outside of that range, you have to write a ''lot'' more substance than has been shown here, and source it to a ''lot'' more than just the  level of media coverage that ''all'' city councillors in ''all'' cities ''always'' get in the ''local'' media, before a city councillor actually gets in the door. A city councillor does not pass GNG just because ''local'' coverage exists, because local coverage of city councillors ''always'' exists — a city councillor doesn't pass GNG until he's getting ''nationalized'' coverage in media outlets ''beyond'' the geographic area where it would be simply ''expected''. (That is, if a city councillor in Portland OR was frequently getting covered in ''The New York Times'' or the ''Washington Post'', that would count for something toward demonstrating notability — but just showing a handful of hits from Portland's ''local'' media doesn't cut it, because ''any'' city councillor in ''any'' city could ''always'' show a handful of local media hits.) And MP298's second link, the one that supposedly makes an especially strong case for his notability as a local public official, is a ''blurb'' in an ''alt-weekly'' about his ''failure'' to win reelection to the city council in 2014 — if ''that's'' a strong case for inclusion, I'd hate to see how much more trivial a source would have to get before MB298 was willing to deem it a ''weak'' one
— User:Bearcat, 00:26, 12 December 2016 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:ROUTINE (Wikipedia:Notability)