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1460:, where a comparable list was deleted for similar reasons, these suffer from a maintainability problem that outweighs their benefit. The idea here was that every town or city in all of Canada that has mayors (or mayor-equivalent positions such as "reeve" or "warden") could list its current incumbent mayor somewhere -- in actual practice, however, we're actually staying on top of updating these in a timely and effective fashion 1510:, which is much more manageable (and helpful, since the big city mayors are the ones who are actually likeliest to clear NPOL.) And similarly, the UK does not have comprehensive incumbency lists of every mayor in England or Scotland or Wales, but just a defined and manageable list of the 693: 1425: 1629:. As the nom says, these lists are poorly maintained and of little value besides; as so few of the people are notable and lack pages, it is effectively just a bunch of names. I also support the creation of a single national list for the 1059: 1457: 327: 571: 1303: 815: 449: 937: 205: 1181: 1524:
cities, but delete all of these attempts at mass inclusionism because we can't effectively maintain them with timely accuracy. The "list of mayors of " lists would not be affected by this, and neither would the base
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for the major cities where mayoral elections, resignations and/or deaths actually get reported as national news. In the smaller towns we frequently miss the boat when they change mayors, because that
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just for existing as mayors, these function primarily as long lists of mostly non-notable people without Knowledge articles to link to, which really limits their value.
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get as widely reported -- and furthermore, there are also many smaller towns which have still never actually been added to these lists
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per nom. Not pertinent to try to keep updated the local leaders of every small community, a national list would be much better.
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that Canada should do something similar: retain a single national list of the incumbent mayors of our 25, 30, 50 or 100
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actually, so that just proves that we're not actually updating the lists.) And furthermore, since mayors do
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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below.
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Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's
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there are too many non-notable mayors to justify these lists.
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List of mayors of the 50 largest cities in the United States
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mayors (again, the ones who are most likely to clear NPOL.)
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