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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was delete‎. Complex/Rational 19:57, 31 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

2006 Sault Ste. Marie municipal election (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log | edits since nomination)
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Article about a city council election in a midsized city, "referenced" exclusively to a single primary source listing of the election results on the self-published website of the city government rather than any WP:GNG-worthy coverage about it.
We long ago abandoned the notion that we should maintain an exhaustive set of articles about every city council election in every city across the board -- we can keep articles about city council elections that have substantive content about the issues in play and are supported by GNG-worthy coverage, but we do not keep articles about city council elections that are just replicating a primary source list of the results without any added context. But this is the latter, not the former, because there's absolutely no meaningful context here over and above the results tables.
Further, when it comes to municipal election results in the Canadian province of Ontario, a consensus was long ago established to handle municipal elections through one merged article per census division, with only the "independent cities" (the ones that aren't part of any county or regional municipality to be merged to) handled in standalone city-level articles -- but in this case, there's no 2006 Algoma District municipal elections article in place yet to merge this content to, and as it stands this is the only year for which Sault Ste. Marie has its own Sault-level article instead of a subsection in an Algoma-level article.
So I'm willing to withdraw this if somebody can actually find sufficient sourcing to create a full Algoma-level article, but we would need a lot more than just a single primary source to demonstrate that this was uniquely important enough to need special treatment compared to most other city council elections. Bearcat (talk) 16:51, 24 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Strong Delete per nom. -1ctinus📝🗨 17:24, 24 January 2025 (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.