Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rob Fleming

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The result of the debate was - kept - SimonP 13:50, Mar 30, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Rob Fleming

Yet another non-elected British Columbia general election, 2005 candidate. Bearcat 01:12, 16 Mar 2005 (UTC)

• Delete --Spinboy 01:28, 16 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Chance of winning, and written in an encyclopedic manner. I'd say Keep. (Btw, I believe that "chance of winning" was used as a criterion for keeping articles in last year's US congressional race). CJCurrie 01:49, 16 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  • Wikipedia is not a crystal ball,delete political hopefuls--nixie 02:11, 16 Mar 2005 (UTC)
    • • Delete--I'll accept actual members of provincial legislatures, or major-party candidates for national legislatures, but not candidates for provincial legislatures. Meelar (talk) 03:45, Mar 16, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, but perhaps review it once the results of the election are in. - SimonP 04:12, Mar 16, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, non-elected = non-notable. Chance of winning is POV. Radiant! 08:51, Mar 16, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep and Cleanup, This can be fixed just watch. Jack Cox 20:55, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. MLA-cruft, unless Fleming actually wins. Try again in two months.--Calton | Talk 00:31, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Candidates are out unless they've done something notable before, other than run and lose. -- Riffsyphon1024 00:33, Mar 18, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep-Fleming has current political office as a two-term city councillor, is running in an unloseable seat for the NDP (the Steve Orcherton only lost the seat by 40 votes last time) and has never lost an office he has run for. Fleming also beat Steve Orcherton the loser for the NDP provincially last time; for the nomination (virtually unheard of historically-Carole James losing by a similar amount went on to lead the BC NDP). I'd change my vote to delete if he lost, but given that he isn't going to--keep this entry. He is certainly more notable than his Liberal backbench opponent.--veenoghu 02:17, Mar 19, 2005 (UTC)
  • I think it's a dangerous precedent to keep articles on the basis of future election predictions. It leaves open too much possibility of abuse. I fully support recreation of the article if he does in fact win the election, but I don't think Wikipedia should be in the business of predicting election results. Bearcat 01:28, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• No vote: yes, he's an office-holder, but this is a candidate's bio-puff-piece. -- Jmabel | Talk 04:26, Mar 19, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Rob Fleming is encyclopedic: a prospective article on the indisputably encyclopedic incumbent Sheila Orr should include that she's facing him in this election, and an article on the past holder of the seat, the prominent Steve Orcherton, definitely should mention his defeat by Fleming in the current nomination. Add his existing career as a city councillor in the capital of B.C., and I think he passes the bar. Samaritan 03:41, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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