Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chris Tindal (2nd nomination)

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 was Delete as there is, on inspection, nothing to merge, and the merge target is not unambiguous. If there is a disambiguation page for Tindals, one could mention him there with links to the two elections, but perennial losers have to do better than this to achieve independent notability. Guy (Help!) 16:19, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Chris Tindal (2nd nomination)

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Non notable candidate for Canadian Federal parliament. Fails Notable politician criteria. This person is already mentioned in Green Party candidates, 2006 Canadian federal election but additional text could be merged from this article into that one. Suttungr (talk) 00:11, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

• Merge with Green Party candidates, 2006 Canadian federal election. Reggie Perrin (talk) 02:27, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
• Merge per Reggie Perrin. Bearcat (talk) 02:36, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
• Speedy merge, per Reggie Perrin and several precedents. CJCurrie (talk) 02:58, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
• Keep. We have an article on El-Farouk Khaki, and he wasn't elected either in the same election. GreenJoe 03:03, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
  • El-Farouk Khaki article appears to stand on its own even without election participation. Tindal's article doesn't. Atrian (talk) 03:41, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
    • This coming from an NDP supporter. GreenJoe 03:44, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
      • I don't see the difference between this article and Rebecca Coad - they both got about the same percentage of the vote in their respective ridings (Coad did slightly better) and they both came in third place. Reggie Perrin (talk) 04:13, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
    • Khaki meets WP:BIO for other things independent of his political candidacy; even if he hadn't been a candidate at all he'd still merit an article. Tindal doesn't meet that threshhold. And it isn't an NDP bias issue, as almost everybody to have !voted merge in this debate has also !voted to merge NDP candidate Rebecca Coad. Bearcat (talk) 05:43, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Chris Tindal gets 31,000 GHits. GreenJoe 19:25, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

So? That doesn't make him notable. As a candidate in a high profile by-election (thanks to Bob Rae), I'm surprised he didn't get more hits. Skeezix1000 (talk) 13:38, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

El-Farouk Khaki got significantly less, and he's supposively notable. GreenJoe 13:45, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

Google hits aren't an indication of notability. Tindal is also an extensive blogger and contributor to online publications which does not make him notable but does drive up the number of google hits he gets. Reggie Perrin (talk) 14:20, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

• Comment What about X? is not considered a strong argument at AFD. Stick to this article's strengths or weaknesses. --Dhartung | Talk 23:13, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

• Merge. Doesn't meet WP:BIO. Atrian (talk) 03:42, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
• Merge. I always ask myself on these AfDs whether the subject would meet WP:BIO if one removed all the information concerning the subject's candidacy and participation in an election from the article (because running in an election, absent some special circumstances (e.g. John C. Turmel), does not in and of itself confer notability). Once that is done here, it is clear that the subject does not meet WP:BIO. Skeezix1000 (talk) 14:43, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

• This AfD nomination was incomplete. It is listed now. DumbBOT (talk) 11:35, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

• delete - Being a candidate in an election doesn't make one Notable. Getting Elected does. But he didn't. Exit2DOS2000^•T•C• 07:28, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
• Delete. [I was going to close this AfD as "delete", but JzG tagged it with {{closing}}, so I'm voicing my opinion instead] Can't really merge any additional content to Green Party candidates, 2006 Canadian federal election, and in reality, this article is relevant to Canadian federal by-elections, 2008 as well. However, he's simply not notable in any way other than the fact that he was on a party's ticket twice, and lost twice. He should have an article when he wins an election. That time is not now. EVula // talk // ☯ // 16:13, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

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