Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John Stein (mayor) (2nd nomination)
Mayors of small towns are not entitled to an automatic presumption of notability just for the fact of serving as mayor. Strictly speaking the size of the city itself is not the controlling factor, as any mayor of any size of city can keep an article if the sourcing is solid enough to actually pass , so this is not a  argument — but the size of city ''is'' relevant to the question of whether a ''presumption'' of notability (a/k/a "the benefit of the doubt") is granted to a mayor in the ''absence'' of a GNG-satisfying volume of sourcing. All of the sourcing here just namechecks his ''existence'' as Sarah Palin's predecessor in an article about ''Palin'', with the exception of one piece of purely  local coverage of him ''failing'' to win election as mayor of a ''different'' small city 14 years later — which means that ''none'' of the sources are ''about'' Stein to the degree necessary for a GNG pass. If somebody could ''properly'' source an article about him, then things would be different — but the sourcing shown ''here'' does not entitle him to an article just for the fact of being a mayor, because he isn't the ''subject'' of any of it
— User:Bearcat, 19:06, 11 January 2017 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:GNG||WP:NOTBIGENOUGH||WP:ROUTINE (Wikipedia:Notability)