Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Thomas H. Cooke Jr.
East Orange NJ is not a significant enough city to confer guaranteed inclusion rights on its mayors — its mayors could get in the door if they could be really well sourced, but are not automatically entitled to have articles just because they exist. Mayoral notability, however, is not about whether it's possible to verify his vote totals in elections — a mayor's notability hinges on the ability to write a ''substantive'' article about his ''political impact'': things he did ''in'' the mayor's chair, specific city-building projects he spearheaded, significant successes and failures, and on and so forth. But that's not what's on offer here: six of the footnotes (two of which are |primary sources that are not support for notability at all, and three of which are redundant reduplication of ''one'' source) literally just represent verification of vote totals, and even the one that might actually contain enough substantive information about his mayoral agenda to actually start getting us somewhere is still just being used to verify that he lost a primary for another office, rather than any content about his agenda. And even if somebody were to extract some real information about his agenda from that source, it would still take a lot more than just one such source to actually get him to the finish line anyway
— User:Bearcat, 16:50, 9 May 2020 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:PRIMARYSOURCES (Wikipedia:No original research)