Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Paul Offer

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 Kotepho 06:24, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Paul Offer

Non-notable, defeated candidate, long way from next election to assess notability on that basis and we can't have every candidate on WP. Mtiedemann 10:03, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

• Comment is ther person notable for anything besides his candidacy? Dspserpico 10:45, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
• Apparently not, based on a glance at the 41 G-hits off of the UK Google. Delete per nom. RGTraynor 14:51, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
• Keep He is notable for securing one of the largest swings to Conservative in the 2005 election and is believed to be in the top swings to not gain a seat ever, as well as his campainging in Chester. It would be a bias for (hence break the NPOV rule) as both the Labour and Lib Dem candidates have their own page.
  • Feel free to nominate them for deletion as well. Fagstein 05:18, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Not because of bias issues, but because running for public office under a major political party in one of the world's oldest democracies is in and of itself notable. Expand and keep. Captainktainer 17:03, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment We can't keep articles just to provide a balance of politics, notability for each individual article has to be asserted. Simply being a prominent losing candidate has several times not been considered notable enough - see Antonia Bance, which article was deleted despite her continuing prominence in the seat and her blog and other claims to notability. In contrast, losing candidates who have less subjective claims, e.g. being a local councillor, have won keep votes, hence I didn't think it worthwhile putting up Cllr Mia Jones, the LibDem candidate, up for AfD. We need some consistency. Mtiedemann 23:37, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
• keep and expand per all above Jcuk 21:34, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
• Keep as a stub for now, but needs to be sourced and expanded. Wstaffor 01:28, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
• Is there some list of candidates we can merge this into? Fagstein 05:18, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
• Keep I can understand merging non-notable candidates, however this is a notable candidacy, and will remain memorable (even if only amongst Cestrians and polititians. This reason was for the SWING, the fact that this is one of the most marginal seats in the country. 84.64.161.206 12:13, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Comments about M. Jones are irrelevant, as she has not been adopted as a candidate for the next election by the LD's, whereas Offer has, he is one of only c.10 people to be adopted by their respective parties, and was the first candidate after the '05 election to win selection for the following election. 84.64.161.206 12:13, 23 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.