Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kenneth Messer

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was delete. Davewild (talk) 17:46, 15 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Kenneth Messer

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Fails WP:BASIC and WP:NPOL. Antigng (talk) 12:11, 7 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Alabama-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 14:23, 8 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 14:23, 8 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Whoa, mayor of a town of 228 people? That hardly even counts as an assertion of notability. Kestenbaum (talk) 23:41, 8 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Keep While I know that just being an elected official does not guarantee notability, he has received coverage in reliable, secondary-sources. Keep. RoadWarrior445 (talk) 11:31, 10 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Mayor of a town so small it's not even worthy of the name. Has done nothing else of particular interest. How is he notable? -- Necrothesp (talk) 12:48, 10 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Note-the Alabama Legislature website has a roster of members of the Alabama House of Representatives since 1922 and Kenneth Messer is not listed. The Alabama Senate roster is being constructed. There is no information in Kenneth Messer's obituary that he served in the Alabama Legislature. Thank you-RFD (talk) 13:28, 10 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Where at all has anybody claimed that he did? Certainly not in the article or in this discussion. Bearcat (talk) 17:01, 13 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Delete America is blessed to have worthy men and women willing to put in the long hours and hard work to run small towns. However, there are formal requirements to qualifying for a Wikipedia page.E.M.Gregory (talk) 14:53, 10 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. It takes a lot of media coverage to get a mayor into Wikipedia if the place that they were mayor of is this small — in a major city, a mayor can pass WP:NPOL on the basis of one source (though they still need a lot more than that before the article is considered good), but in a place of this size you would have to write and source it a lot more substantially than this, right off the top, just to make them eligible to even have an article at all. Just as an example, all this article actually says about his political career is the fact that he was a mayor — everything else it says about him is detail about his personal life which has no bearing on his eligibility for a Wikipedia article. If somebody could write and source something substantive about his public career as mayor, then I might be willing to revisit this — but as written, this doesn't even begin to satisfy any of Wikipedia's inclusion rules. Bearcat (talk) 19:03, 12 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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