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I should comment, I took my elderly mother out of the hospital today and into rehab. Days like today put that we have limited time alloted to us, and that we should use it wisely, into perspective. I have asked repeatedly that articles for relatively unknown countries such as the
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calling Riga a "small community" is a bit of a stretch: it's a city of nearly a million people and also the capitol. And mayors almost always have plenty of press coverage. That said, a single-sentence sub-sub-stub isn't really helping the encyclopedia, but I'd be happy to vote keep if this can be
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I would hope that the nominator reconsiders his nomination given that Riga obviously isn't "such a small community" (the fact that it's in Lativa is completely irrelevant) and that at least two of these people have notability beyond being mayor.
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Baltics being insignificant nations with no areas of habitation larger than fishing hamlets inhabited by 3 families, so we just delete everything as not notable.
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to AfD as soon as first created. Articles need time to gain attention by the community, and editors not familiar with the countries/history/culture should not be doing wholesale nominations as here.
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