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The result was delete. Mz7 (talk) 08:20, 11 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Joe Helle[edit]

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WP:BLP of a small-town (pop. 2K) mayor, not referenced to enough reliable source coverage to clear WP:NPOL #2. As always, every mayor of every town does not get an automatic inclusion freebie just because he exists -- but four of the six references here are primary sources that cannot assist notability at all. And while the other two sources are reliable source media coverage, they aren't enough media coverage: what we require to make a mayor notable in a town this size is evidence that he's considerably more notable than the norm, by virtue of having garnered an unusual volume, depth and/or geographic breadth of coverage. And further, one of them reveals what I suspect is the real reason for this article, even though the body text doesn't explicitly say so: his candidacy in a future state legislative primary. But as always, that isn't a Wikipedia inclusion criterion either: a person has to win the seat, not just run for it, to get an article from a statehouse election. So there's just not enough substance, or enough sourcing, here to deem him notable enough for a Wikipedia article. Bearcat (talk) 21:33, 26 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Ohio-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 21:36, 26 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 21:36, 26 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete orders of magnitude below the level of being notable.John Pack Lambert (talk) 16:49, 27 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.