Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mayor of Gulf Breeze

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The result was delete. ✗plicit 23:44, 12 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Mayor of Gulf Breeze

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Poorly sourced list of mayors of a small town. Gulf Breeze (pop. 7K) is not a large enough city that its mayors would be presumed notable just for being mayors, with the result that absolutely nobody in this list has a Wikipedia article to link to -- but the article is referenced almost entirely to primary sources that are not helping to establish the notability of the mayors, with the exception of one article in the local pennysaver which appears to be here solely to support the year in which the city was incorporated rather than the identity or term dates of any of the mayors.
As always, the core purpose of a Wikipedia list is to help readers locate Wikipedia articles -- there's absolutely no value in maintaining a primary-sourced list of entirely non-notable people. Bearcat (talk) 19:49, 5 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Lists of people, Politics, and Florida. Bearcat (talk) 19:49, 5 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Then it will not maintain links to the (nonexistent) Wikipedia pages to the former mayors, the article can only be about the office from now on. This article is not just about who has served as mayor, rather what the office is. Just like the Wikipedia page for the Santa Rosa County Sheriff's Office, the page has a list of former sheriffs, but is not about the sheriffs themselves. The sources are still being improved, as the page was just created yesterday (As of May 5, 2022). — Preceding unsigned comment added by LoniKen (talk • contribs) 20:08, 5 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Not linking the mayors' names doesn't make the page "not a list anymore" — if their names are still present in the article at all, then the page is still a list, and it's a list with no reason to exist if nobody named in the article has a biographical article to link to. (But don't think that means I'm saying the page would be fine if the list of mayors were stripped entirely, because an article about the position would have no value at all if the mayors weren't named in it either.) Bearcat (talk) 21:20, 5 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Small town mayoral position with no evidence of notability. Primarily a list which fails WP:NLIST. AusLondonder (talk) 16:50, 6 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete This is a place of less than 10,000 people that is not even regionally important, regionally important places are places like Pensecola. There is no justification at all for such an indepth article built around sourcing from the local (but not even Gulf Breeze named) newspaper.John Pack Lambert (talk) 17:28, 6 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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