Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Greg Ball

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. PinchasC | £€åV€ m€ å m€§§åg€ 15:00, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Greg Ball and Greg ball (redir)

Delete obvious self-promotion by as-yet-unelected aspiring politician, User:Greg Ball started the article - CrazyRussian talk/email 06:03, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

• Delete Vain vanity in vain. Danny Lilithborne 06:58, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. WP is not a free webhost for the resume. Tychocat 08:32, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. Candidates for such a lowly legislative body are not automaticlaly notable. Batmanand | Talk
• Delete, fails WP:BIO, WP:VAIN. --Coredesat 10:12, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. Even if it's not deleted, a clean-up is needed. --Kristjan Wager 16:30, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. "Controversy" section looks like blatant soapboxing WP:NOT A4. --DaveG12345 20:32, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, WP:NOT the place to fire back against political mud slinging. Get elected and get a minion to do the write up. Deizio talk 01:16, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
• This article is allowed per Wikipedia:Candidates_and_elections. The policy states 'articles on elections should be written before articles on individual candidates. Only if and when there is enough independent, verifiable information to write a non-stub article on a candidate should one be written.'. It should be cleaned up and put into a Neutral point of view, it is getting there. Also the New York State Assembly is not 'lowly'. MrPrada 17:34, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

• Comment Can you provide linkage to the pre-existing article about the election? I cannot find it. --DaveG12345 18:14, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

• Comment Here is the article about the election: State Assembly election, New York, 99th district, 2006. Thanks! MrPrada 01:08, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

• Com I think you just disproved your point. When the article on the election gets up to at least a few pages of information - ideally NPOV, sourced information - and a decent stand-alone page (think something worthy of a Wikipedia:Did you know candidate) can be created about the individual, please call back. In any case, the "proposed style guide / guideline" (policy is a whole different ball game) you refer to above doesn't bypass the established notability guideline WP:BIO, and that these candidates are featured on any page is, imho, generous. Deizio talk 01:26, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

• Comment Thanks for the link, though it is naughty to delete other people's comments - please leave them where they are next time, and respond underneath. The information in the election article is plenty IMO - the guideline says "only if and when there is enough independent, verifiable information to write a non-stub article on a candidate should one be written". On the evidence of Greg Ball as it stands, there is not enough information of this kind. The printing of a full letter text in the latter doesn't fool me that the article is stubby and contains POV soapboxing. Leave it in the election article IMO. Feel feel to recreate the article after sweeping to victory. --DaveG12345 02:05, 29 June 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.