Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gayle McLaughlin
By the very nature of what a mayor is and does, the bulk of her coverage is always going to be predominantly local — so the localness or non-localness of the sources is not the controlling factor in and of itself. If she had been a city councillor and ''not'' a mayor, the presence or absence of more than just local sourceability would carry a lot more weight — but for ''mayors'' the bar to inclusion in  is ''markedly'' lower than the bar for councillor inclusion, so as long as there's a reasonable ''volume'' of sourcing it is ''not'' as critically important that the coverage encompass an unusually large ''geographic'' range.To be fair, AusLondoner is drawing from ''British'' standards for mayoral notability, where with a handful of exceptions the mayoralty of most places is a rotational "Buggins' turn" position where the most senior person on council who hasn't had their turn yet automatically gets to be "mayor" for a year, and thus has very little direct executive power and very little substantive coverage — but that's ''not'' the way it works in most ''North American'' cities, where the mayors are directly elected and have ''considerable'' power over the direction of city business. And that's the thing I think he's missing: the notability standard for mayors ''does'' hinge ''significantly'' on the question of whether that city's mayoralty is a directly elected position or a "thanks for coming out" ribbon.So for a directly elected executive mayor, a population of 100K certainly wouldn't entitle her to keep an ''unsourced'' stub — but it is ''absolutely'' large enough to get a mayor included in Wikipedia if the article ''is'' adequately sourced. 50K, 10K, even ''5K'' is enough if the article is genuinely substantive and well sourced — the population size test actually only comes into play if we're in a position where we have to figure out how much ''benefit of the doubt'' to extend to a ''poorly'' sourced article on the question of whether better sources are ''likely'' to be found or not. It's ''irrelevant'' if the article ''is'' already well-sourced and substantive, however — even the mayor of a village of just ''10'' people can get a Wikipedia article if they've been properly shown to clear GNG for it
— User:Bearcat, 08:29, 13 March 2017 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:POLOUTCOMES (Wikipedia:Deletion policy)