Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Richard Henry Hall

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The result was delete. Michig (talk) 08:47, 26 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Richard Henry Hall

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Mayor of a small city without further assertion of notability, does not appear to pass WP:NPOL Reywas92^Talk 07:07, 19 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Massachusetts-related deletion discussions. Reywas92^Talk 07:07, 19 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. ~~ OxonAlex - talk 14:05, 19 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Taunton MA is not large enough to hand its mayors an automatic notability freebie just for existing as mayors — but the sources here are a genealogical register and a biographical sketch in a local history book, which is not enough referencing to get a mayor over WP:NPOL #2 as the subject of significant press coverage. To deem a smalltown mayor notable enough for Wikipedia, we need considerably more than just one or two pieces of technical verification that he existed — the notability test for a mayor is the ability to write and source a substantive article about his political career, not the ability to locate the names of his wife and kids. Bearcat (talk) 16:26, 19 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - even today, Taunton is a medium-sized city; back in his term in the mid-19th Century it was small. Bearian (talk) 14:44, 23 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete mayor of a place that is not significant enough to make its mayor notable.John Pack Lambert (talk) 00:08, 25 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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