Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dave the chameleon

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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 Keep. --Fang Aili 說嗎? 04:15, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Dave the chameleon

  • Keep - Cultural and political significance. lewbrown2
  • Delete - appears to be a politically motivated ad and hence not encyclopedic (on its own). If it could be cleaned up and NPOV-ized, I'd recommend merge with a Politics of the UK-type article. In any case I don't think it warrants its own article.--WilliamThweatt 17:59, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep I've not intentionally made this article polictically motivated - it is a description of the Labour party's campaign for the local elections (the campaign itself is 'obviously' designed to be biased), as has been reported in several popular newspapers. Since seeing that this is marked for deletion, I've added some opinion of Tory supporters to the article, and its contradictions. If there is an article on the Local Election Campaigns, 2006, I agree it should be added to that. Martinp23 19:03, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
Comment I think that for now this article should stay where it is, and when someone makes an article containing the election results after it takes place, it should (perhaps) be moved there, where details of other campaigns can be added. Martinp23 12:17, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
  • I believe that this article should remain in place. In its current state it is NPOV (as far as I can see), and an accurate summary of the campaign and the criticisms of it that have been made. I also agree that it would be better combined in a UK Local Elections 2006 article, or something similar. CPCHEM 19:43, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep - its a fairly notable political campagin. Robdurbar 08:45, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
Comment also, if its an admin who closes this an its a keep, the page really ought to be moved to Dave the Chameleon; this is a redirect with two edits so normal users can't preform the move. Robdurbar 09:16, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
  • Weak keep - at the moment. The campaign is currently in progress, and we are apparently to be 'treated' to further installments. If the campaign progresses into something notable during the election campaign, then the page should stay; if in a few weeks time (after the elections) it remains essentially non-notable, then propose it again for deletion. DWaterson 11:11, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep - this isn't at all politically motivated, as I'm neither Labour nor Tory and have very little personal interest in whatever slanging goes on between them, but this was notable enough to be a major topic on BBC Question Time last week, and has had several newspaper headlines and a front page on BBC News - as long as the article is NPOV, i think it's notable enough for Wikipedia.KrJDub05 13:54, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep - this is a pretty notable campaign, and definitely an interesting one. --Easty 21:08, 27 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.