Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Stevenage Council election, 2003
There is strong precedent for such election pages which have never been deleted at AFD such as at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Windsor municipal election, 1991, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Norfolk County municipal election, 2006, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Philadelphia mayoral election, 2007, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kettering Council election, 2007 and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Birmingham Council election, 2008. The article is fully referenced and verfiable to reliable sources including to a page on the BBC website which has always been accepted as sufficient for notability. There are at least 900 pages in the relevant subcategories of :Category:Council elections in the United Kingdom which cover this sort of election and they have always been accepted as fine. They are contested by the national political parties and I completly disagree that the yearly election could ever fall under the 'routine news coverage' of #NEWS. There is a newspaper which always give very full coverage of the Stevenage elections but unfortunatly it's web archives only go back to 2004 but it's 2008 coverage is very comprehensive as shown http://www.thecomet.net/content/comet/elections/default.aspx here including a full look at what each parties policies were, which shows what a look back at offline records has the potential to find
— User:Davewild, 17:49, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:NOT (Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not)