Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nick Gradisar

Nick Gradisar

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Former mayor of a town with a population of ~111k. Looking at a List of mayors of Pueblo, Colorado, the only other one with a Wikipedia page is James Bradley Orman, who later served as Governor of Colorado. I don't think this is an inherently notable position and I don't see how Gradisar rises above any other Pueblo mayor in terms of notability. Also, not that this is relevant to Gradisar's notability as a person, but the article was pretty clearly written by a supporter of Gradisar to promote him. It barely cites any sources and reads like a glowing bio of him you'd find on his personal website. BottleOfChocolateMilk (talk) 19:00, 13 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete — I support deletion for the reasons given by the nominator. I am concerned also that the article provides some completely wrong information. Jeffrey Beall (talk) 22:05, 13 June 2025 (UTC).[reply]
Wikipedia:WikiProject Colorado/Requests: its literally a request on here. Edward of York (talk) 08:03, 14 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Just because someone requested it doesn't mean the person is notable. BottleOfChocolateMilk (talk) 20:14, 14 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Politicians and Colorado. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 19:10, 13 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete and/or draftify, without prejudice against recreation if somebody can actually do better. Pueblo is certainly a large enough city that a mayor would be eligible to keep a well-sourced article, but it's not large enough that its mayors would get an automatic presumption of notability on bad sourcing just because of the possibility of future improvement — but a lot of the content here is completely unsourced, and two of the three footnotes that are present are primary sources which aren't support for notability, being used to support trivia about his private personal life rather than notability-building content about his political career. The only GNG-worthy reliable source present in the article at all is a single short blurb verifying the simple fact of winning the mayoral election, which is fine but not enough all by itself. So, again, this could exist if it were sourced better than this, but a mayor needs a lot more than just one hit of press coverage verifying that he exists. Bearcat (talk) 15:57, 15 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]