Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2009 Tacoma mayoral election

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The result was delete. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 00:56, 17 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

2009 Tacoma mayoral election (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log)

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Nothing particularly notable about this election in city with a population of about 200,000 people. JayJay^{What did I do?} 00:52, 10 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions. JayJay^{What did I do?} 00:52, 10 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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• Delete (reads article) can't believe this survived 12 years. SportingFlyer T·C 01:32, 11 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• Since there was a surprising keep !vote, I should probably due my due diligence and say that local elections tend to be routine events outside the larger cities and there's nothing indicating why this stub of an article is any exception. The article fails WP:GNG on its face and I expect the only way to source this article would be through purely local coverage, which is not what is expected of local election notability. SportingFlyer T·C 01:31, 16 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I would point out that Tacoma is one of the largest cities in Washington. The election was covered locally and regionally, and I am searching for any national coverage, but there is no community consensus on what categories of cities should have articles about mayoral (or council) elections and no community consensus on to what degree mayoral elections need regional or national coverage. --Enos733 (talk) 17:39, 16 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete per above. — Alalch Emis (talk) 19:51, 11 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete These individual articles about specific mayoral elections are almost neve justified.John Pack Lambert (talk) 20:54, 11 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep This election was the first municipal election of Congresswoman Marilyn Strickland. It was also a close election in one of Washington state's largest cities. --Enos733 (talk) 19:12, 15 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• Why not just merge the election results from this election to Marilyn Strickland's article? JayJay^{What did I do?} 01:37, 16 March 2021 (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.