Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Joe B. Jackson
without prejudice against recreation if somebody can do better than this. The population of a city is not an automatic inclusion freebie in the absence of enough significant |reliable source coverage to clear  #2 — but the only sources here are a (deadlinked) profile on the website of the local genealogy society (which is not a reliable or notability-assisting source), a glancing namecheck of his existence in the congressional record (which is not a notability-assisting source), and a single obituary. And no, having had a street named after him in the city is not a notability claim for a mayor, either — if that were all it took, we would have to keep articles about at least 75 per cent of everybody who was ever mayor of anywhere, because naming new streets or public buildings after former mayors is just a commonplace and |run of the mill thing that towns and cities everywhere quite regularly do. If he could be sourced significantly better than this, then it wouldn't matter what population the city has or had — but the city's population does not in and of itself ''exempt'' him from having to be sourced better than ''this
— User:Bearcat, 18:40, 23 January 2018 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:RS||WP:NPOL||WP:MILL (Wikipedia:Reliable sources)