Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/1984 Sutherland District Council election

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The result was keep‎. Owen× ☎ 12:48, 9 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

1984 Sutherland District Council election

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The election is not notable and is of negligible importance.

Simply does not pass WP:GNG. Grahaml35 (talk) 21:31, 18 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Politics and Scotland. Shellwood (talk) 21:46, 18 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Keep- This isn't like a parish council election in England, the district elections were covered in the national press because of their importance. For example, the analysis of the results was in The Scotsman. Unfortunately, the British Newspaper Archive doesn't have any papers from Sutherland in the 1980s to further establish notability but it would be the same level of coverage you would expect for any of the current unitary authorities. For comparison with the most recent local elections in the UK, this district council is on a par with the 152 district councils at 2023 United Kingdom local elections#District councils, all of which have their own article (I know WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS is not an argument to keep an article but the implication here is that all of those plus every other district council election in the UK are not notable and a simple WP:BEFORE will show that's not the case). Stevie fae Scotland (talk) 22:28, 19 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗plicit 23:27, 25 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I have added additional sources, background information and ward results to try and help move this discussion forward. 20:57, 28 January 2024 (UTC)

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Sandstein 08:24, 2 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Consensus in previous AfDs is that district council elections in the UK are deemed notable events. Number 5 7 13:43, 3 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Keep. On the one hand there are a lot of these local election articles on Wikipedia (though there are also lots of red links on the annual summary pages for the 1980's) and there should be a enough sources in newspaper archives based on my experience with current coverage of comparable UK elections. On the other hand, the kind of news or analysis sources that would establish notability via the GNG are currently completely lacking in the article which is just a detailed breakdown of the election results with no sourced commentary or analysis. So keep as improvable and useful, but with the understanding that from a notability perspective these articles are really only necessary/appropriate if there is something _more_ to say than just listing the results. Eluchil404 (talk) 00:52, 9 February 2024 (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.