Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Scott Schertzer
Per . A couple of local references is not sufficient. An article about the city might mention the present mayor. I cannot see the point of hundreds of thousands of potential articles about every person who was ever the mayor of a small town and got his name in the newspaper a couple of times, since notability is permanent, and any mayor of any town probably got into the local newspaper at least as many times as this fellow did, or the paper wasn't doing its job.   As an example, I can go to Newspaperarchive.com, select any small town, and voila I can find a dozen refs to Mayor H.W. Lander of Beaver Dam, Wisconsin in the 1860's (population then under 3,000) in the Beaver Dam newspaper. He got elected, inaugurated, made speeches, signed laws, and once his horse bolted and the carriage overturned, etc. Multiply by hundreds of thousands of small towns worldwide and a new mayor every few years throughout its history. I cannot see why perfunctory coverage of a local official in a local paper satisfies 
— User:Edison, 17:29, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:LOCAL||WP:BIO (Wikipedia:Places of local interest)