Category talk:Mayors of places in England

Sub-categorisation

At the moment we have mixed together here:

• mayors who were elected or appointed and had some leadership role a century ago;
• the usual ceremonial mayors elected by councillors from among their number; and
• the latest crop of directly-elected executive mayors

Is there a way we can separate them. I think the third set should be easy to do, but I am not clear of the distinctions between the first two (e.g. Jabez Balfour was mayor of Croydon but not a councillor there, as far as I know, so what was his status?) Mtiedemann 09:57, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

I see the comment above was made three years ago, with no replies. As time goes by this appears to be becoming a little more urgent. "The latest crop" is becoming more powerful both directly (a directly-elected mayor has more power over their area, be it a city, borough or whatever, than does an MP) and indirectly in terms of influencing or reflecting voting patterns (see Peter Davies, for example). Mtiedemann's first category is problematic; what does "some leadership role" mean? but it appears to me that WP does need to draw a distinction between modern-day directly-elected mayors with executive powers and purely ceremonial mayors (many of whom seem to serve as Mayor as a result of Buggins's turn). Is there a Wikiproject which might have some interest here? Tonywalton ^Talk 00:07, 8 June 2009 (UTC)