Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of councillors of Alice Springs

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Poorly sourced list of almost entirely non-notable people. Alice Springs (pop. 23K) is not a community whose local government councillors would ordinarily be deemed to pass WP:NPOL #2, so the overwhelming majority of people listed here do not have Wikipedia articles to link, and the few who do have some other notability claim (e.g. going on to hold higher offices at NPOL #1 levels) besides having been local councillors in Alice Springs per se.
But apart from a couple of stray media hits used to cover off just two or three of the most very recent names, this is otherwise based entirely on primary sourcing that isn't support for notability, rather than WP:GNG-worthy coverage about the council's work.
The fact that local government councillors are not ordinarily notable, further, means that lists of them don't have any encyclopedic value -- without wikilinks it's essentially just a meaningless list of names, so we don't ordinarily maintain lists of historical local councillors in towns or cities outside the rarefied global city class whose city councillors are much more likely to pass NPOL and thus have far, far more than just three or four wikilinked names to list.
So this just isn't the kind of thing we should be maintaining without really solid GNG-worthy sourcing for it. Bearcat (talk) 23:12, 28 February 2025 (UTC)

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Lists of people, Politics, and Australia. Bearcat (talk) 23:12, 28 February 2025 (UTC)
• Merge to Town of Alice Springs - This definitely doesn't need an page of its own but the information could be put in the 'Past councillors' section of Town of Alice Springs which at the moment just has a link to the article. Gazamp (talk) 23:32, 28 February 2025 (UTC)
• :not sure what there is to merge, the 50 odd non notable people? LibStar (talk) 01:18, 3 March 2025 (UTC)
• Delete as per nom. Steelkamp (talk) 23:37, 28 February 2025 (UTC)
• Strong delete Fails WP:NLIST. LibStar (talk) 02:08, 1 March 2025 (UTC)
• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 02:24, 1 March 2025 (UTC)
• Delete: I can't see how this passes WP:NLIST given my searches and the subject matter. If anyone finds sourcing which demonstrates that it does please ping me. TarnishedPath^talk 02:27, 1 March 2025 (UTC)
• Delete per WP:NOTEVERYTHING. Geschichte (talk) 07:53, 1 March 2025 (UTC)

:Delete per nomination by @Bearcat; as the user who made the list I agree it isn't worth keeping Totallynotarandomalt69 (talk) 10:02, 1 March 2025 (UTC)

• Delete: As per WP:NPOL, there is no inherent notability in being a local councillor so this list fails to meet the requirements of WP:NLIST. Obi2canibe (talk) 10:50, 1 March 2025 (UTC)

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