Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gayle McLaughlin
As a preliminary matter, the deprodder was right that this article is not suitable for prod.  It's hardly a "false rationale" to believe that an article about someone who was twice elected to be mayor of a city over 100,000--especially in this case, where her election made Richmond the largest city in the country to elect a Green Party member as mayor--deserves the full review of an AfD rather than the summary procedure that roposed deletion reserves for deletions that are reasonably expected to be "uncontroversial".  On the merits of notability, the search string  yields hundreds of potential sources, including national coverage not only of the unusual circumstances of her election and re-election, but also of such policies as (a) her unusual proposal to use eminent domain to acquire defaulted mortgages from the lending banks (''New York Times'' https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/12/business/in-richmond-california-a-long-shot-against-blight.html?_r=0; ''The Nation'' https://www.thenation.com/article/meet-mayor-whos-using-eminent-domain-fight-foreclosure/; Associated Press, reprinted in multiple newspapers around the country https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1A1-fb19cfcc9c7b4bc0bda13a90d692e795.htmlhttps://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-35055869.htmlhttps://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-35053907.htmlhttp://www.deseretnews.com/article/765636587/Calif-city-looks-to-seize-loans-to-ease-mortgages.html?pg=all; ''USA Today'' http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/09/29/richmond-eminent-domain-foreclosures/2834299/); (b) her support for worker owned co-ops as a remedy for urban poverty (''Los Angeles Times'' http://articles.latimes.com/2011/nov/28/local/la-me-richmond-20111128); (c) her advocacy of a tax on soda and sugar (''New York Times'' http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/05/us/richmond-calif-savors-role-as-soda-tax-battleground.html); and her challenges to the city's dominant employer, Chevron (''In These Times'' https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-3112589101.html; ''Los Angeles Times'' http://articles.latimes.com/2012/aug/14/opinion/la-oe-0814-juhasz-chevron-refinery-pollution-20120814; ''Moyers & Company'' http://billmoyers.com/2014/10/30/mayor-gayle-mclaughlin/).  I think notability is clear here
— User:Arxiloxos, 02:09, 10 March 2017 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:P (Wikipedia:Portal)