Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Santa Clara County Supervisor

This page is an archive of the proposed deletion of the article below. Further comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or on a Votes for Undeletion nomination). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was no consensus. Fernando Rizo T/C 23:28, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Santa Clara County Supervisor

Just a list of county suipervisors. Delete, unless county supervisors are inherently notable. Denni☯ 02:39, 2005 August 19 (UTC)

• Keep and re-write. This should not be a list, but an article about the role of said supervisors. Trollderella 03:09, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
  • You've suggested a rewrite twice now. Who do you plan on doing it? Denni☯ 03:20, 2005 August 19 (UTC)
    • It's my understanding that being badly written is not a sufficient criteria for deletion. Given that the article doesn't meet the criteria for deletion, I don't believe it's my responsibility to find someone to re-write it, but, since you ask, I'll have a go. Trollderella 15:19, 19 August 2005 (UTC)

• Delete. I'd be hard pressed to think of a less significant governmental position. Very poor "article" to boot. -R. fiend 04:53, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Totally NN  RasputinAXP  talk * contribs 12:53, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. County Supervisors are inherently notable. Larger counties (at least)will eventually be included in Wikipedia by necessity.--Nicodemus75 13:12, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Move name so Santa Clara County, if you must. Pilatus 13:58, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
• Delete Below threshhold. Dottore So 14:04, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
• Delete unless improved. Leonig Mig 15:03, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. I created this page yesterday and have had less than 24 hours to work on it. I plan on improving this article to list all the county supervisors who have served in Santa Clara County. In the state of California Countys play a large role and are important elected officals. They serve over 1.7 million people and the county staff exceedes 15,000 employees. Most are former mayors and some have gone on to serve as state legislatures or US representatives. It would be useful and a valid article to have a list of all those who have served as Santa Clara County Supervisor. Please reconsider your votes for deletion. Thank you. Dapoloplayer 17:25, August 19, 2005 (UTC)
  • Is it possible to maybe move this article to "List of Santa Clara County Supervisors" or "List of Santa Clara County Supervisors serving the 5th district"?Dapoloplayer 17:28, August 19, 2005 (UTC)
    • I spent 15 minutes adding a bunch more to the site. Compared to the previous 4 minutes i had spent on it it has greatly improved. Again please reconsider your votes for deletion. Dapoloplayer 17:42, August 19, 2005 (UTC)
• keep but please clean it up Yuckfoo 18:01, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Notable elected office.Capitalistroadster 18:03, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, very notable office (in CA counties more important then cities) and the article is brand new. Let it grow a bit.Gateman1997 18:10, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, nn. jamesgibbon 22:47, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
• Keep SchmuckyTheCat 05:33, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
• Delete per R. fiend. Xoloz 17:38, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
• Delete per R. fiend. Gamaliel 18:24, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
• Delete per R. fiend. Nandesuka 23:20, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Verifiable and locally significant. Those who are unsatisfied with the article content should try to improve it, rather than making nasty remarks here. -- Visviva 05:23, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

That's ridiculous, why would someone contribute to an article they do not think worthwhile? Is that just rhetoric or do you actually think that was a valid input to this discussion? Surely not! Leonig Mig 22:17, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

• Comment: Before we decide to keep this article, has anyone actually read it? For some reason the first sentence specifies 5th district, though it seems more than one district is represented, based on the Don Gage stub (VfD fodder that one is) and the fact that there's so much overlapping of years it almost seems they were made by a random number generator. Someone decided all the names should be linked, even though they are almost all non-notables (a few are notable for going on to positions of some importance, but not for being county supervisor), and many are incorrect links. At the very least this needs extreme de-linking (I'll take care of that) and some sense to be made of the years and who exactly is covered by this article. If we're going to do a shoddy job we might as well not bother at all. -R. fiend 03:03, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
• Delete per R. fiend. --Several Times 20:21, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

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 an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.