Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/J. Ward Russell
Glens Falls NY is not large enough to hand its mayors an automatic pass of  #2 just because they existed — smalltown mayors can sometimes still clear the bar if they can be |reliably sourced well enough to be considered ''special'' cases of significantly ''greater'' notability than most other smalltown mayors, but are not all automatically accepted as notable. But there's an incredible gap here between the depth of content and the shallowness of the referencing actually being used to support it, suggesting the possibility of uncitable |original research.  Even the one local newspaper article doesn't provide complete citation details, but just goes "name of newspaper, month, year" without including the title of the article or the specific day on which it was published, which thus makes it unrecoverable — and the existence of one local newspaper article isn't an automatic notability guarantee for a smalltown mayor anyway, because ''every'' smalltown mayor can ''always'' show one local newspaper article. The notability test he would have to pass is not just getting his name into the local newspaper, it would be getting coverage that expanded significantly ''beyond'' just Glens Falls itself — but the only "expanded" source present here is genealogical, not notability-making political journalism
— User:Bearcat, 14:18, 21 June 2019 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:NPOL||WP:RS||WP:OR (Wikipedia:Notability)