Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Colin Basran
I'll grant that this is one of the last articles about a mayor that I created ''before'' our notability standard for mayors was tightened up from "a certain arbitrary population figure confers automatic inclusion rights, so all you have to do is show verification that they've been elected as a mayor" to "you need to write a substantive and well-sourced article that actually delves into detail about his political impact" — so it certainly does need significant improvement, and is not an accurate reflection of the amount of effort I would have put into the article if I were creating it today (Doug Craig (politician) is a more representative sample of that). But notability is ultimately based much more on the |existence of suitable sources, not on the current quality of the article, and Basran most certainly does have the kind of sourcing needed to improve the article with. Nominator is incorrect that statewide/provincewide office is always a base requirement for passing  — while that is the lowest level of political office at which we ''automatically'' accept ''all'' MLAs as being permanently notable without having to achieve anything more than serving in the legislature, mayors of significant cities most certainly are also considered notable if we have the sources with which to write a substantive article. Nominator is also incorrect that mayoral notability always requires book-length works about his life — book-length biographies certainly count as ''bolsterers'' of notability if they do exist, but the existence of book-length biographies is not a mandatory condition that a mayor always has to have before he can ever be deemed notable. If there are enough other kinds of sources (like newspaper journalism) to establish a pass of NPOL #2, then NPOL #2 is still passed
— User:Bearcat, 18:15, 11 October 2019 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:NEXIST||WP:NPOL (Wikipedia:Notability)