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 keep‎. I see a consensus to Keep these articles. I see no support for Deletion. Editors interested in a possible Merge or Redirect can discuss it at the article talk pages. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 23:09, 19 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This AFD was not correctly formatted as a bundled nomination so the remaining articles will have to be handled manually rather than with our AFD editing tools. If the nominator wishes to make nominations of multiple articles in the future, please review WP:AFD to see how one should be set up. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 23:12, 19 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

2022 Shreveport mayoral election (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log | edits since nomination)

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More electioncruft articles, except all of these are in a town that is not even in the top 100 largest towns in the United States. Not notable for the usual reasons, Wikipedia is a political database. Fails the general notability guideline, as all sources are WP:MILL in local news stations or papers. Additionally, no coverage is sustaining, failing WP:NEVENT. I am nominating the following articles as well:

• 2022 Shreveport mayoral election
• 2018 Shreveport mayoral election
• 2014 Shreveport mayoral election
• 2010 Shreveport mayoral election
• 2006 Shreveport mayoral election
• 2002 Shreveport mayoral election
• 1998 Shreveport mayoral election
• 1994 Shreveport mayoral election
• 1990 Shreveport mayoral election — Preceding unsigned comment added by 1ctinus (talk • contribs)
• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Politics and Louisiana. Shellwood (talk) 10:02, 23 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Events-related deletion discussions. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 11:04, 23 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Weak keep - I'm struggling with this one. I am mostly persuaded by your argument, however, I am a sucker for well done election articles with good sources, images, graphics, etc. It may be better served at ballotpedia. I think it's worth keeping as a source of accurate information with pretty graphics. My city is a little larger than Shreveport and our mayoral election is on Wikipedia with far less information. I would't want it deleted. Perhaps a faulty reason I'm giving to keep, but I think that it just scrapes by as a source of general encyclopedia information. Bluefist ^talk 02:45, 24 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  Your argument against deletion seems to emphasize its inherent importance (WP:ITSIMPORTANT). However, on Wikipedia, importance is determined by significant, independent coverage, and unfortunately, there isn't a rule that makes municipal elections automatically notable.

  If you want to merge these all into a list (mayoral elections in Green Bay, Wisconsin), I would be fine with that, but for now, we have an unmaintainable mess of hundreds of these mayoral elections without explaining their significance. -1ctinus📝🗨 11:39, 24 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Extraordinary Writ (talk) 04:23, 30 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Still no consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 03:43, 6 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Redirect to List of mayors of Shreveport, Louisiana. Other than the 2022 article, the articles are only sourced to primary sources and mostly about candidates without stand-alone articles. The additional coverage of Adrian Perkins and the 2022 election is likely because of editor interest rather than availability of sourcing. And the sources for 2022 are just WP:MILL coverage of candidate entries, endorsements, and results. List of mayors of Shreveport, Louisiana is the only plausible redirect target; it seems reasonable enough as an alternative to deletion. Walsh90210 (talk) 04:00, 6 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Week keep per bluefist, articles have a decent amount of coverage Microplastic Consumer (talk) 04:40, 6 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep Frustratingly newspapers.com is offline for the Wikilibrary, so I cannot clip articles, but simple searching shows extensive coverage of the elections from the 1990s and early 2000s in The Times (Shreveport, Louisiana). NB: WP:NEXIST. Regards, --Goldsztajn (talk) 02:57, 9 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  Coverage has to be lasting for events to be notable per WP:PERSISTENCE, because Wikipedia is not a newspaper. -1ctinus📝🗨 16:58, 13 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Final relist. Opinion seems divided between Keep and Redirect. I don't see support for Deletion.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 03:39, 13 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep on two grounds - the lead article is notable since it was covered in the news regionally, and while there's a chance one of the other elections isn't notable, we can't bulk delete these. SportingFlyer T·C 17:49, 13 August 2024 (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.