Talk:Town Manager of Saugus, Massachusetts

This article was nominated for deletion on 1 November 2012 (UTC). The result of the discussion was keep.

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Source material

Some source material for the article is:

"Saugus town manager fired in 1974 wins suit against city, selectmen". Boston Globe. February 8, 1980. {{cite news}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help); |section= ignored (help); Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
Norma Love (November 13, 1982). "Metropolitan Briefing Town Managers In Demand". Boston Globe. {{cite news}}: |section= ignored (help)
John Laidler (May 3, 1998). "Storm Clouds In Saugus Over Town Manager Issue". Boston Globe. p. 1. {{cite news}}: |section= ignored (help)
John Laidler (July 4, 2002). "Town Manager's Resignation A Surprise". Boston Globe . p. 3. {{cite news}}: |section= ignored (help)
Katheleen Conti (November 24, 2005). "Town Manager Search Might Resume". Boston Globe. p. 5. {{cite news}}: |section= ignored (help)
Kathy McCabe (February 15, 2007). "OT is frozen, funds delayed: Town manager eyes next vote". Boston Globe. p. 1. {{cite news}}: |section= ignored (help)
Jeff McMenemy (October 29, 2011). "Lynn woman claims police brutality. Saugus town manager defends arresting officer's record". The Daily Item (Lynn). p. A1. {{cite news}}: |section= ignored (help)
Matt Tempesta (December 15, 2011). "Saugus board votes to limit authority of town manager". The Daily Item (Lynn). p. A5. {{cite news}}: |section= ignored (help)
Jessica Trufant (December 29, 2011). "Town Manager search top priority for Saugus officials in 2012". The Daily Item (Lynn). p. B1. {{cite news}}: |section= ignored (help)
Matt Tempesta (January 5, 2012). "Saugus names Vasapolli interim Town Manager". The Daily Item (Lynn). p. A1. {{cite news}}: |section= ignored (help)
Matt Tempesta (January 19, 2012). "Saugus board to hold town manager meetings". The Daily Item (Lynn). p. A4. {{cite news}}: |section= ignored (help)
Matt Tempesta (January 26, 2012). "Saugus setting baseline for Town Manager search". The Daily Item (Lynn). p. A6. {{cite news}}: |section= ignored (help)
Matt Tempesta (March 21, 2012). "Saugus picks finalists for town manager". The Daily Item (Lynn). p. A6. {{cite news}}: |section= ignored (help)
Kathy McCabe (April 8, 2012). "Former Saugus town manager files suit seeking $65k in pay". Boston Globe. p. 5. {{cite news}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help); |section= ignored (help); Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
Matt Tempesta (June 1, 2012). "Selectman: Prosecute Bisignani - Saugus board member seeks legal action against former town manager Saugus". The Daily Item (Lynn). p. A1. {{cite news}}: |section= ignored (help)

-- Uzma Gamal (talk) 14:56, 9 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Relevance for this ever-ballooning article?

Trying to figure out how this article is of any relevance. I see a former mayor of this town from 25 years ago on the Recent Deaths page, linking here. No offense, but if every suburb of 26,000 people and their entire lineage of past mayors all were notable enough to warrant this attention - there would be no room for anything else?

Someone's gotta get a handle on this if editorial efforts on Wikipedia are going to return to the numbers of past years. Clearly, this needs to be merged with the town page and condensed to only information meeting Wikipedia guidelines. The textual information is several times the size of the Boston Mayors page, which is a worthy article.

Perhaps I've missed something in the notoriety here. Otherwise, it seems like someone, the user who has made 98% of the over 500 edits to this page over years - is a bit overzealous on the encyclopedic nature of their little town's government.

Looking at the motion to delete from 2012, the conclusion was to keep on the basis that the citations are reliable. Come on, anything can garner a list of reliable citations. Does that make it encyclopedic? Trep26 (talk) 22:23, 29 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]