Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Thomas Vezzetti

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The result was keep. postdlf (talk) 23:24, 20 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thomas Vezzetti

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Vezetti's closest claim to notability is serving as mayor of Hoboken. Hoboken is a city of neither substantial enough size nor regional enough importance to make the mayor of it notable. This article also illustrates why we have this rule. The talk of Vezzetti being known for wearing mismatching shoes, and entire lack of any discussion of his policies as mayor, shows the draw backs of including articles on minor people with only local coverage.John Pack Lambert (talk) 19:18, 13 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Keep the article meets the general notability guideline. It is a stub and can easily be filled with information from his obituary published in both The New York Times and was reprinted in the Los Angeles Times. That the author writes about "wearing mismatching shoes" is a red herring. That two national newspapers chose to write about him out of the thousands of people that died that day, is was makes him notable. Not the size of the population of the city he was mayor of, or his sartorial habits. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 21:52, 13 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Keep or merge and redirect to Mayors of Hobokon Tolkien was known for wearing colourful waistcoats, and this is (I hope) in his article. Hobokon is more important than its size suggests, because of its proximity to New York. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 21:50, 13 February 2015 (UTC).

Note: This debate has been included in the list of New Jersey-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 22:35, 13 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 22:35, 13 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Notable local politician, as mentioned in Wikipedia. Needs local references. Does not have to be known outside Hoboken.Billy Hathorn (talk) 17:22, 14 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Keep As a major local political leader, with ample coverage in reliable and verifiable sources to establish notability, including an obituary in The New York Times, a national paper of record. Despite its size, Hoboken punches far above its weight, making it a regionally important city, as evidenced here and in the article for the present mayor, Dawn Zimmer. The nominator appears to have prejudged this AfD based on the city's size and has made no mention or taken any consideration of the availability or quality of reliable and verifiable sources or of alternative solutions as explicitly required by WP:BEFORE. The additional failure to combine a series of such AfDs all based on the same rationalization raises further issues. Alansohn (talk) 01:41, 15 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Keep In the NYC metro region, Hoboken is an extremely important city, for political, transportation, residential and cultural reasons. Its importance to the region is not proportional to its population. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 13:54, 16 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Mayor of a city of 50,000 people. Just not notable enough. -- Necrothesp (talk) 15:28, 17 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Keep as satisfying WP:BASIC. Whether or not Hoboken mayors are inherently notable as mayors of regionally significant cities, Pasculli has been the subject of significant coverage as referenced in the article. I particularly like the "The Wackiest Mayor in America" stories that got picked up nationally, but there's also more serious coverage. 24.151.10.165 (talk) 20:44, 18 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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