Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Paul King (New Zealand)

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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 was keep. —Doug Bell talk 12:48, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Paul King (New Zealand)

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Tagged WP:CSD#A7 but notability asserted. Failed candidate, formed own party of no evident signficance. No sources. Guy (Help!) 22:47, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

  • Keep, came very close to getting into Parliament and then later on attempted to form his own party. Mathmo Talk 06:34, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep. The deselection of a candidate who was otherwise likely to become an MP was, I believe, a notable event. It got media coverage, certainly. -- Vardion 18:53, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
  • delete: it describes a man whose only notability is that he failed in a quest for notability. Kripto 02:19, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Note: This debate has been included in the list of New Zealand-related deletions. -- Tikiwont 13:46, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Note: I also nominated the creator Vardion who may not be in a position to respond. -- Tikiwont 13:47, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
  • keep He came very close to getting a seat under te NZ proportional representation, he has founded what seems to be a significant new party, the article is written without any apparent COI. DGG 08:31, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached
 Please add new discussions below this notice. Thanks, Quarl (talk) 06:49, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep The media attention given seems to make this notable. Chairman S. Talk Contribs 06:56, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
?? The article cites no sources at all and does not claim any media attention (not that that would be automatically evidence of encyclopedic notability anyway). Bwithh Join Up! See the World! 07:41, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
Heh, guess for some people it simply isn't obvious that they would have had media coverage.... that is ok, really quite understandable. So I went and added in a couple more external links to the article, both from major big NZ media companies. Mathmo Talk 14:50, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete Minor political candidate with minor parliamentary kerfuffle over business connections (just 2 distinct short-ish articles in regional/local NZ newspapers about this in a Factiva news database search for Paul King + Wizkid) which stopped him becoming an MP. The party he went on to help found in 2005 (apparently out of pique), Freedom Party (New Zealand) failed to carry out the most basic action of registering for the 2005 general elections, fielding no candidates (according to the wiki article)- this party article should be considered for deletion as well (though currently its official website has been taken over by Turkish hackers so it is impossible to evaluate its website at the moment) Bwithh Join Up! See the World! 07:41, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Weak keep per Vardion. I wouldn't call the Freedom Party a significant one, since it failed to stand any candidates in the only election held since it was formed, but King's formation of the party combined with his near entry into parliament under interesting circumstances tip the balance.-gadfium 04:06, 19 February 2007 (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.