Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ralph T. Troy
I believe the standard for keeping a mayor is to govern over a City of regional prominence, rather than any fixed numerical population. As I wrote in rticles for deletion/Gerald Schweighart there are multiple questions that should be answered in evaluating whether a city's mayor should be presumed notable including the city's population size (or regional prominence) and how the mayor is elected. Is the mayor elected city-wide or city wide or in a Council–manager government, by their colleagues on the City Council (and otherwise be another member of the council, and perhaps elected by a specific district or segment of the city)? My other comment is about population size generally. When discussing Champaign, Illinois, I noted that at a population of 81,000, it was the 380th largest city in the United States. Worldwide, there are at least 363 cities with a population of over a million and at least 842 cities with a population of over 500,000 http://world-gazetteer.com/wg.php?x=&men=gcis&lng=en&des=wg&srt=pnan&col=abcdefghinoq&msz=1500&pt=c&va=x World Gazetter. Even in the United States, there are over 289 cities with a population of over 100,000 List of United States cities by population. My other thought is that because of media consolidation, major newspapers barely cover the affairs of any particular city except for the one or two major cities in their delivery area. Finding reliable sources for smaller cities, I presume, is getting more difficult, unless the mayor does something that would otherwise meet . Finally, I have suggested that instead of complete biographies of mayors, it would be better to create a list of mayors from a particular town. That preserves the encyclopedic mission of Wikipedia and ensures that each subject is sourced by multiple reliable sources
— User:Enos733, 20:13, 11 July 2013 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:A||WP:N (Wikipedia:Attribution)