Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Michael Baldasaro

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was No consensus. Stifle (talk) 16:43, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Michael Baldasaro

Title is about one person, but article seems to be about two seperate people, both of whom are equally NN. Probable vanity article, I can't see how they meet WP:BIO in any possible way. pm_shef 22:00, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. Ardenn 22:14, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. Provincial notability is not enough.--Fuhghettaboutit 22:35, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. Baldasaro and Tucker run the Church of the Universe, a new religious movement with an article of its own! This should plainly merit a merge at the very least. Baldasaro is one of the handful of Canadian marijuana activists persistently in the news for something - two Google News hits this very moment. Samaritan 23:03, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per Fughettaboutit. Stifle (talk) 00:28, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
• While I realize that not everybody agrees on the notability of unelected political candidates, the precedent has already been set that federal candidates are entitled at least to inclusion in a merged list. Baldasaro was also briefly a candidate for the leadership of the Progressive Conservatives in 1998; AFD precedent has always favoured inclusion of party leadership candidates. So I'm inclined to the keep, but if this absolutely has to go I could live with a merge into either Church of the Universe or a Marijuana Party candidates list. Precedent already excludes outright deletion as an option. Bearcat 00:58, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
• This one should be kept. The article has been in need of improvement for some time, but Baldasaro is a notable enough figure -- he runs a religious movement (of sorts), is a perennial candidate for public office and, as Bearcat mentions, tried to run from the PC leadership in 1998. CJCurrie 20:11, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, as mildly notable, although I admit my insinct is to delete anything that includes "eccentric" and "marijuana" in the first paragraph... Sandstein 19:16, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.