Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John Mutton
The http://moderngov.coventry.gov.uk/mgUserInfo.aspx?UID=172 subject's page on the Coventry Council website states that he has been a councillor since 1984, Leader of the Council from 2003 to 2004 and 2010 to 2013, leader of the opposition from 2004 to 2010 and Lord Mayor in 1997/8 - while the source is obviously primary, I would regard it as reliable (for verifiability) for these council career details. While none of this meets any of the automatic criteria of , the criteria are supposed to reflect whether topics meeting them could be expected to meet {{ after a more in-depth search for sources than an AfD period typically allows. Bearing this in mind, I find the idea that a councillor recently elected in Birmingham (population 1.1 million, 120 councillors) is automatically notable but one of 30 years' standing in Coventry (population 330,000, 54 councillors) with exactly the same formal powers must be presumed non-notable unless fully proved to meet  somewhat odd but acceptable in that lines have to be drawn somewhere. But assuming that being leader of an English council (with powers equivalent to those of an executive mayor, if somewhat less security of tenure) of a city the size of Coventry is not at least indicative of notability strikes me as perverse. And
— User:I, 11:15, 24 August 2014 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:NPOL||WP:GNG (Wikipedia:Notability)