Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mitch Owens
unless the article sees significant improvement. The idea that a city's population hands its mayors an automatic notability freebie regardless of the article's quality or sourceability was deprecated almost a decade ago now — ''regardless'' of a town's or city's size, the notability standard that a mayor has to clear to earn an article in 2019 is the ability to write and source a ''substantive'' article that contextualizes and analyzes his ''importance''. But that's not what this article does; it literally just states that he was appointed mayor after his predecessor's death and then was defeated in the first subsequent municipal election, says nothing whatsoever about anything he did ''in'' the mayor's chair, and then goes on to list a bunch of minor awards that aren't instant  passes. And the referencing isn't solid enough to get him over the bar that mayors actually have to clear, either: five of the nine footnotes are |primary sources that are not support for notability at all, two of the four that are real media just go to verifiability of election results and don't speak to the ''notability'' of the people named ''in'' the election results at all, and the two sources that are actually ''about Mitch Owens'' in any non-trivial way aren't ''enough'' since it takes a lot more than just two sources to get a mayor over  #2. Mayors are not automatically notable just because you can verify that they existed; they are notable only when you can add enough sources to demonstrate that their mayoralty was ''important'' in some substantive way
— User:Bearcat, 15:30, 22 September 2019 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:ANYBIO||WP:PRIMARYSOURCES||WP:NPOL (Wikipedia:Notability)