  Stuart as an experienced Wikipedian please can you respond to some of the points that stand against yours above? Wikipedia seems to be forcing a notability onto his name. Is that reasonable? He doesn't appear in any of the various Wikipedia lists of NZ politicians or mayors (except 'Mayor of Hamilton, New Zealand'). I won't repeat what's above but please appreciate that this amounts to artificially remodelling someone's identity (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prisoner). The disambiguator is not what he's best-known and most notable for now - that is probably something V8 related (ie post-Mayor). Nor is it (mayor therefor politician) what first made him notable (see above) as others have argued - he had no article while mayor. He's a businessman who was mayor for a while. There are plenty of people on Wikipedia who were mayors for a while but are not lumbered with it for life. Please may I respectfully suggest that this deserves more reasoned consideration than opposing one liners.    