Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Michael Le-Surf

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 delete all. Mailer Diablo 10:47, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Michael Le-Surf

This and other articles nominated below are part of a larger group of articles relating to councillors and candidates in Brentwood, Essex, England, seen at Category:Brentwood. I would happily nominate all of them other than those who have been leaders of the Council or are otherwise notable. The presence of the first few seems to spawning POV articles essentially reproducing election biographies, and could get too much to handle.

However, those which I am nominating now are just those of losing candidates - they have not held public office and no wider notability beyond local campaigning is asserted. We cannot have hundred of articles on failed local politicians on top of articles on every successful one. Perhaps the other articles can be considered individually.

• Michael Le-Surf, failed candidate, nn
• Antony Williams, failed candidate, asserts local notability but seems vanity
• Doris Suckling, failed candidate, nn
• Deborah Wood, failed candidate, nn

Mtiedemann 02:02, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

• Delete all as per Mtiedemann. I wish there was a speedy delete criterion for failed political candidates and non-incumbents currently running for office with no other claim to notability, except candidates for head of state. -- Kjkolb 03:13, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

• Delete all - nn, vanity (esp. Antony Williams). -- MarcoTolo 03:27, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

• Delete all - per nom, plus suggest {{db-failed-politician}}? (j/k) ~Kylu (u|t) 03:56, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
• Delete them all per nom. -- ReyBrujo 05:01, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

• Comment, actually, I think they could be speedied per CSD:A7, as they fail WP:BIO for political figures: Political figures holding international, national or statewide/provincewide office or members of a national, state or provincial legislature. and Major local political figures who receive significant press coverage. -- ReyBrujo 05:03, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

Delete all per nom. I would speedy them, but I think that being a failed candidate is a claim of notability which would prohibit speedy deletion. TheProject 07:06, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

• Delete all Even though nominating multiple items at once is slightly confusing, I don't think any of them are notable enough, except perhaps Antony Williams. Even then, delete. Jude (talk,contribs,email) 09:33, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
• I agree, delete all. None are notable. --A bit iffy 10:09, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
• Flush 'em all. per nom. Buchanan-Hermit™..SCREAM!!!.... 23:55, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
• Disagree - While I agree with the point that articles about failed politicians are of ponderable use, if any of these people are still standing in elections then I think they are relevant. StephenN 23:45, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

Comment The election was on 4 May, so it's all over for the year. Mtiedemann 08:00, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Comment Not all constituencies have elections at the same time, have all elections for the articles in question been held? StephenN 13:24, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Comment Local elections are always on the first Thursday in May unless there is a by-election. I think that Brentwood is on a three-year cycle and next year is their year off, with elections for the Essex County Council level instead, so it would be two years until these seats are contested again, but that needs checking. Mtiedemann 00:23, 11 May 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.