Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Don Anderson (mayor)
Lakewood is not large enough to hand all of its mayors an automatic presumption of notability just because they exist, but the sourcing here is not rising to the level necessary to get him over the bar. The existence of a few hits of ''local'' media coverage is not automatically enough to get a mayor over the bar — ''every'' mayor of ''everywhere'' can ''always'' show some evidence of purely local coverage, so if that were all it took then we would always have to keep an article about every mayor who exists, and ''no'' mayor would ''ever'' fall below the notability bar anymore. Which is why we have a longstanding consensus that mayors of smaller towns and cities have to show evidence of nationalized significance to qualify for articles — but the very small amount of "nationalized" coverage shown here isn't sufficient to demonstrate that — it's about a ''train derailment'' and just includes Anderson giving soundbite, which is ''not'' the same thing as coverage that has Anderson as its ''subject''. The key to making a mayor notable enough for a Wikipedia article is to document the ''importance'' of his mayoralty, not just the existence of it — and if a mayor has just eight footnotes of which two are |primary sources that aren't support for notability at all, three are routine verification of election results, and three are not ''about him'' but just mention his name in the context of being about a non-political event that happened in the city, then he's falling on the wrong side of that distinction
— User:Bearcat, 14:00, 15 December 2019 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:PRIMARYSOURCES (Wikipedia:No original research)