Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Boris Johnson

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The result of the debate was - kept

[edit] Boris Johnson

This VfD discussion is closed, the concensus was keep.

Note: this page was nominated irregularly by User:AnthonyBrown, who did not add it to the main VfD page. I'm adding it now, though as it's a manifestly obvious keep (current, extremely notable, British MP) perhaps I shouldn't be. Dbiv 03:57, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)

• Delete - A vanity page if ever I saw one AnthonyBrown 11:35, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • Please note that, according to the history log, this edit was made on January 10th, not December 10th. Dbiv 04:05, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Keep - well known politician, journalist and media personality in the UK. This is a prank listing if ever I saw one. --rbrwr^± 23:42, 10 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Keep - and remove from VfD swiftly. Note: Anthony Brown's only two edits are to list this page on VfD [1] jguk 23:50, 10 Jan 2005 (UTC)"

At the moment he hasn't even listed it on VfD, just made a VfD subpage. --rbrwr^± 00:13, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)

• I can only conclude this is vandalism, clearly *not* a vanity page - all current MPs have a wikipedia entry, and Johnson is one of the best known outside of the Cabinet, and would almost certainly be notable enough for a wikipedia entry for his journalism and other media roles alone. keep. As an aside, since this hasn't actually been listed on the vfd page, it's interesting to see who else has the page on their watchlist (don't ask why I have!). Joe D (t) 02:21, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Remove from VfD please --Davelane 00:42, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)

• Keep Could the person who nominated this please disclose his nationality, Wikipedia credentials and motivation? Philip 18:10, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Keep Obvious vandalism, as Johnson is the best-known and most popular Conservative MP. I would suggest Anthony Brown is an attempt to combine Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. 11 Jan 2005
• Keep obviously. Dbiv 03:53, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, this never met the criteria for VfD. Wyss 06:06, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Notable. --Viriditas | Talk 06:57, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. IMO this is not a listing in good faith, but in the interests of minimum waste of time let's just let the process end normally. (In Australia we talk of letting it go through to the keeper, likening such pranks to deliveries in cricket which are obviously wide of the wicket and which a batsman would be stupid to attempt to play.) IMO this is a candidate for early delisting as there is a clear consensus to keep. The nominator has no other edits, and as noted above is probably a sock puppet set up just for this exercise, so their vote counts but not for much. Andrewa 08:11, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Notable and newsworthy figure in British politics and journalism. Capitalistroadster 10:33, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Notable person in politics and journalism. No need to delete it. Mgm|^(talk) 11:18, Jan 12, 2005 (UTC)
• Another keep; how can one discuss British politics without Boris? It'd be pretty tedious. Shimgray 16:55, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Keep article. Remove listing from VFD. DJ Clayworth 20:06, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• STRONG KEEP - The most interesting figure in current British politics by about the distance from Lands End to John o' Groats, and as someone who grew up under Margaret Thatcher its not easy for me to sing the praises of a Tory. Thryduulf 22:53, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Hardly, he's the only interesting tory left (with the possible exception of Ann Widdecombe, but for entirely different reasons). Keep --fvw* 01:21, 2005 Jan 13 (UTC)
• KEEP. Notable UK MP and media personality. Addition of this page to VfD is vandalism of wikipedia and is getting coverage elsewhere (On Boris's on webpage) and showing wikipedia in a bad light. I would suggest removing the VfD tag from the page immedietely, on the grounds of removing vandalism. Richard Taylor 19:18, 13 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Holy mother of KEEP and I'm not even British! I kind of like the idea of letting the VfD run its course as an example to anyone who thinks that nominating a valid article here is going to see it voted away. Nice try, "Anthony Brown." - Lucky 6.9 21:59, 13 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• To quote the great man himself, this is surely "an inverted pyramid of piffle". Or de Pfeffel. Can anyone trace Anthony Brown's location to a city at least? 14 Jan 2005
• Keep - Next to Tom Watson he's probably the best known blogging MP --Politicool^± 18:00, 14 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Vandalism by a bogus VfD nomination. Keep. - Mike Rosoft 12:52, 15 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Vandalism. Strong Keep--Arbiteroftruth 01:57, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, obviously. But must VfD listings obviously made in bad faith run their course? If I listed something like United States for deletion it would be removed immediately. No one would tolerate the big VfD template sitting there for days. — Trilobite (Talk) 15:24, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC)

I have removed the VfD notice, this VfD is closed. Could somebody archive this? My ISP is being extremely slow and patchy, so I can't open the main VfD page.

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 an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.