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thousands of people worldwide (and upwards of 40,000 in Canada alone), so I don't think that is significant enough to warrant notability by default. The article is made up of noting these awards and election results, and while I am somewhat on the fence, I lean towards deletion for this marginal BLP.
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his political career (such as his actual positions on specific issues, specific civic projects he spearheaded or opposed, and on and so forth.) But apart from the repetition of basic election results that are already in the election articles anyway, the only other content present here at all is the
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Local city councilors are not inherently notable, although for larger cities (i.e. Toronto) they do tend to be kept. I don't think this extends to Calgary by default. While he was the recipient of various awards (two Queens Jubilee award/medals for example), these were awarded to hundreds of
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I think as a rule Calgary could default to keep as far as city councilors go, provided there is substance to the article or notability outside that role. But as you say, the article should be more than just a regurgitation of election results, which are available elsewhere.
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fall 2017. I was looking for some indication that he is notable for some issue, some impact, but the best the reporter could do was "longest serving" Calgary councilman. Ping me if I missed something, but it really does look like a case of non notable
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notability claims per se. If the article contained some actual substance about his career in politics, I'd be down with the keep — but all it actually does is list his successive election and reelection statistics, in a way that offers
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see a case for reviewing whether Calgary and Edmonton should actually continue to qualify or not. (We did revisit the question of Winnipeg's historic presumption of notability last year, and consensus
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status, which has been historically presumed to include Calgary (as well as Vancouver, Edmonton, Toronto, Montreal and Ottawa, for a total of six Canadian cities) — but that said,
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that a reader can't already get just by following the results tables in the election articles themselves, and there's no point in keeping an article like that.
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http://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/ward-10-veteran-councillor-ray-jones-says-this-will-be-his-last-term
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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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pass, and doesn't appear to meet GNG, the only independent coverage I find is akin to
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valid grounds for revisiting whether certain cities should retain that status or not.)
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non-notable community service awards, and Kelapstick is entirely correct that those
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All of that said, what we need to make an article about a city councillor
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Ward 10: Veteran councillor Ray Jones says this will be his last term
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The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate.
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