Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Edwin Adams (politician)

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. §FreeRangeFrog^croak 08:39, 20 February 2015 (UTC)

Edwin Adams (politician)

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Adams only claim to fame is serving as mayor of Norwalk, Connecticut. This is a city of neither sufficient size nor of sufficient regional significance for the mayor to be default notable. John Pack Lambert (talk) 20:34, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

• Keep article states "He was a prominent hat manufacturer." Not many people manufacture prominent hats, so that makes him notable. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 21:55, 13 February 2015 (UTC).
  
• Keep a biography in American Hatter and an obituary in a New York City newspaper denote notability. Was he a prominent hat manufacturer like the ones worn by Pharrell Williams. Or was he a prominent hat manufacturer like John Batterson Stetson. Clearly one has notability and the other must be deleted as as soon as possible. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 22:15, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Connecticut-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 22:52, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 22:52, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 22:52, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

• Keep hat maker (are they nearly extinct?) and briefly a mayor. Would be good to have more. Billy Hathorn (talk) 17:10, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

• Strong keep -- I took a lot of time and effort doing research to cover what I feel is my area of responsibility (i.e. the history of Norwalk, Connecticut). The city of Norwalk is of a sufficient size that its mayors would qualify as notable. Is it the intention of this proposer to also propose all the numerous others? That is a lot of time and effort wasted, and history lost for a fairly substantially sized city. I was a significant contributor for many years, but I really am very discouraged by what Wikipedia has become. Greg Bard 205.172.173.250 (talk) 18:03, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
• Keep - Mayor of Norwalk, but most sources are held in local library. I'll try to dig up some more stuff with my newspaper access. ChrisGualtieri (talk) 18:16, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
• Keep - Historical figure who was elected mayor of Norwalk, CT and the subject of an obit in the illustrious New York Tribune (doubtlessly among other publications). WP:POLITICIAN is meant as a high bar to keep out candidate spam, not as a defacto ban on all but a comparative handful of biographies of elected officials. Carrite (talk) 12:39, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
• Delete. Mayor of a city that only has a population of 87,000 now (which is far from being big enough to make its mayor inherently notable), let alone when he was mayor. No sources beyond the basics. The "obituary" in the New York Tribune is actually little more than an announcement of his death. -- Necrothesp (talk) 15:24, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
• Comment Added ref re: after his time as mayor, he served on a committee that led to the construction of the first municipally owned power plant in Connecticut. Albert E. Winchester (January 1915). "South Norwalk's Municipal Electric Works". Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 57: 228–231. JSTOR 1013283. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |laysource=, |laydate=, and |laysummary= (help) 24.151.10.165 (talk) 18:08, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
• Keep per WP:BASIC. In particular, The American Hatter piece and the the Tribune obituary constitute significant coverage approriate to the time period. 24.151.10.165 (talk) 16:53, 19 February 2015 (UTC)

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