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The result was delete. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 15:16, 12 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Non-notable county politician and mayor, fails WP:POLITICIAN. No significant coverage other than in the local newspaper (and most of those stories are about election results). Rusf10 (talk) 01:49, 5 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep appears to meet GNG, there is no expectation in the GNG that county politicians have national or international attention, just "multiple reliable sources". The GNG trumps any other guideline. The consensus at County executives of Atlantic County, New Jersey was to merge all smaller county executive articles into a single list. Someone needs to start County executives of Bergen County, New Jersey.--RAN (talk) 02:17, 5 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete all of the articles are about his local political career; fails WP:POLITICIAN. SportingFlyer talk 02:42, 5 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. MT Train^Talk 03:54, 5 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of New Jersey-related deletion discussions. MT Train^Talk 03:54, 5 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete Routine citations in minor, local (northjersey.com, bergen dispatch, etc...) news only. The General Notability Guide is a presumption of notability, not an ironclad guarantee. An article for every runofthemill small-town mayor or councilman would truly be indiscriminate trivia. TheValeyard (talk) 05:00, 5 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete Fails WP:POLITICIAN is the important note here, as there's no way he meets GNG. A local politician would be expected to have coverage in multiple local publications; such coverage is routine and doesn't mean he meets GNG. Agree with MT Train and TheValeyard on this one. Rockypedia (talk) 16:06, 5 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete Looks like routine coverage stuff to me, as others have also noted. Mangoe (talk) 17:45, 5 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. Every local politician on earth would always pass WP:GNG if all we had to show was "some local media coverage exists", but every local politician on earth is not deemed to automatically pass WP:NPOL just for existing — so RAN is wrong, politicians at this level do have to show a credible claim of being more notable than most other mayors and municipal councillors and school board trustees could also show. But that's not what's being shown here at all — the only discernible notability claim here is "some local media coverage exists", which isn't enough for politicians at the local level of government: there has to be enough media coverage (in either volume or geographic range or both) to show that he has a credible claim to being more notable than most other people who hold the same role elsewhere without getting a Wikipedia article for it. Bearcat (talk) 03:22, 6 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete contrary to what some editors believe we do not have special exemtions that make virtually every local office holder in New Jersey notable.John Pack Lambert (talk) 03:17, 9 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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