Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Meir Lichtenstein
Lakewood Township NJ is not a significant enough place to clinch the "inherent" notability of its mayors just for existing as mayors, but there's nothing here that's relevant to actually getting him over the notability test that mayors actually have to clear. For starters, the most solid source in the article explicitly reveals that Lakewood is a place where the mayoralty rotates annually among the municipal councillors, rather than being directly elected by the general public — and for another, the key to mayoral notability requires the ability to write and |reliably source a genuinely substantive article about his political impact. But of the nine footnotes here, five are the county's own self-published tables of election results and one is the municipal government's own website — so six of the nine footnotes are |primary sources which are not support for notability at all. And of the three that are media, there's one that just briefly namechecks his existence as a coda at the very end of an article whose primary subject is someone else, and one that's completely not as advertised — it does not link to a "front-page article in The Forward that profiles Mayor Lichtenstein", but to an article about a one-man theatre show in San Francisco by an actor named Josh Kornbluth. And the one genuinely strong source is from Ocean County's community hyperlocal, which means it isn't enough coverage to get him over the bar all by itself — and even if the Josh Kornbluth article is just a bad link and an article about Meir Lichtenstein in ''The Forward'' can actually be recovered just by fixing it, that still won't be ''enough'', because GNG is not just "count the footnotes and keep anybody who gets to two
— User:Bearcat, 17:36, 9 May 2020 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:RS||WP:PRIMARYSOURCES (Wikipedia:Reliable sources)