343:- Politicians are the one category of biographies to whom GNG is generally not applied; instead a Special Notability high bar is frequently used, giving automatic passes to elected members of national and provincial assemblies, tending to give easy passes to national and provincial party leaders, and dealing with unelected politicians harshly on a case by case basis. Elected members of city councils are a grey area, with those of major metropolitan areas almost always kept while those of tiny towns usually treated as self-serving promotion. And so here we have a bio that is in the grey area of the grey area, an elected city council member from a mid-sized city. My opinion is that we should keep this one and here's why: it's a tolerably well done piece, it's a tolerably well sourced piece, and Knowledge (XXG) is better off with the piece than without it. Ignore All Rules, Use Common Sense.
312:. There are several hundred articles with her exact name and "Hamilton" I found using Proquest. I only added one to to article so far, on her leaving council, which was an indepth piece exclusively about her. Below I listed a few other substantive pieces. The only thing preventing a comphrensive full length well cited article is somebody having the large amount of time/interest required. Given the poor state of the article, I won't cry if it's deleted, but think it does technically meet the requirements to be kept. --
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