Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rodolfo B. Valentino

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The result was keep. No arguments for deletion aside from the nominator. (non-admin closure) Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:11, 22 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Rodolfo B. Valentino[edit]

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Subject does not appear to meet qualifications for notability. Wildhartlivie (talk) 05:19, 15 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. He was the mayor for four years of Marinka City, which has about the same population of Las Vegas, Cleveland, or New Orleans. Nobody would suggest removing articles for the mayors of those cities; to delete this would just be American-centric. The article could use some more sources, but I think it's fair to say this meets criterion #2 of WP:POLITICIAN.—Chowbok ☠ 05:27, 15 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, of course. Former Mayor of a city of a half million people. Most sources would be in Tagalog, but there's no reason to believe there are not many out there. See the table of past mayors at Marikina City#Government; people seem to be working to create these bios in reverse chronological order. Jack Merridew 05:36, 15 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Philippines-related deletion discussions. -- Jack Merridew 05:37, 15 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. -- Jack Merridew 05:37, 15 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per above. Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 10:18, 15 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Weak keep. Wasn't able to find much coverage on this gentleman, but I imagine the potential is there. Can anyone dig up some sources on this? Notability is claimed but there's no coverage to back it up sourced in the article. Rehevkor ✉ 14:48, 15 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep I'm presuming automatic notability as a politician. Sometimes I just don't understand our guidelines (including the ones that don't seem to exist, like the non-existent one that says a pissant low power radio station is automatically notable if it has an FCC licence). In this case, his role was clearly more 'notable' than that of a member of an American state legislature. Dougweller (talk) 10:44, 20 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - per snowball. Even I have heard of this guy and I live in the UK! Not presumed notability for politicians though as suggested above: that would make all our minor backbenchers notable as well as all the Lords. And all the MEPs. And MSPs. And... --Jubilee ♫clipman 12:49, 21 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.