Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Richard Carlbom
While  states that local elected officials ''may'' not be notable, I would believe that this is mostly intended to prevent articles about school board members and city councilpersons, who really aren't that notable and the articles would be nothing but resumes of otherwise private people. Mayors are at the top of the local governmental structure and I would think would be considered to be fairly notable as they would have been written about extensively. Further, Carlbom in particular was the second of two consecutive mayors of St. Joseph who were elected at age 23. This in itself is fairly unusual and makes him stand out among other mayors of St. Joseph for whom the notability argument might be harder to make. I have added a couple of more links to the article to be used as sources. I will come back and inline reference them if I have the time, but anyone else is welcome to. In fact, I encourage it. In my search for sources, I also came across http://www.oah.state.mn.us/aljBase/637217611.DISM.OR.htm this document which may imply a small scandal, perhaps relating to Carlbom's involvement in Tim Walz's campaign while he was mayor and may have been an impetus for his resignation. I have not added this to the article particularly because it does involve some speculation on my part and borders on OR (that I did in under 10 minutes using Google!) but I mention this because it may point to the existence of some sources providing coverage of this. Speaking of Google, while a search of "Richard Carlbom" (in quotes) returns only 654 results, most of them are in fact about the subject of the article. This is in contrast to many other notable person AFDs in which a search for the subject will return thousands of results, but only a handful are actually about the person in question. I point this out because it's important to keep in mind that the Google test is not the best standard for supporting a case of non-notability
— User:LaMenta3, 01:46, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:BIO (Wikipedia:Notability)