Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/David J. Dwork
An obituary in the New York Times is ''not'' an automatic notability freebie in and of itself, particularly for a person who lived and worked and died inside the New York City media's local coverage area. (Just as an example of why the "NYT obit = automatic notability" argument doesn't fly, allow me to remind you that the NYT obituaried every last one of the nearly 3,000 people who died in the 9/11 attacks — but we decided ''against'' maintaining biographical articles about all of those 3,000 people just because an NYT obit existed, and ''deleted'' everybody who wouldn't have already passed a notability criterion for some other reason as of 9/10.) Every mayor of any place that exists at all would always clear GNG if all you had to do was show two or three pieces of purely local media coverage — what we require for mayors is that either (a) they serve as mayor of a ''major'' city, or (b) they can be referenced to a lot ''more'' and/or ''wider'' coverage than most other mayors of small towns could also show. And this article neither contains nor sources any actual substance about his mayoralty, either — it simply states that he served as mayor and committed suicide, the end. That's not enough; the NYT coverage, as it stands, just makes him a 
— User:Bearcat, 15:47, 16 December 2017 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:BIO1E (Wikipedia:Notability)