Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Paul Summerville

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 no consensus. – Sceptre ^(Talk) 09:19, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Paul Summerville

Non-notable political candidate. Only ran once in 2006 Federal election and wasn't elected. No other notable qualities. At most should be listed on NDP candidates, 2006 Canadian federal election (I've already moved the text there). Delete or Redirect Atrian 17:52, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

• Keep - political candidate in 2006 Federal election. At worst, should be redirected to NDP candidates. No harm in redirect. For great justice. 19:57, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
  • If you look through the candidate lists for the past two elections, being a candidate is not enough to achieve notability. Only those candidates who otherwise are notable in some other area deserve their own page. In this case (IMO), P. Summerville hasn't achieve this yet. Atrian 21:44, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

If you look at the deletion guidelines, you will notice that notability is not in them. I think this verifiable, factual information should stay. I'm not necessarily arguing that there's enough here for a full article, a redirect may be in order, but not deletion. For great justice. 21:48, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

Notability is a prerequisite for creating biographical articles: why in god's name should the standards be ignored for deleting them? --Calton | Talk 04:38, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Actually it's not required for creating them. That's a popular myth. For great justice. 18:07, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

• Delete - not notable enough. --Khoikhoi 22:55, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
  • Notability not enough for deletion. For great justice. 01:58, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
    • It is in my opinion - if we ignored notability soon we'd have an article for all 6 billion people in the world. --Khoikhoi 07:36, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
      • What a strange opinion! I wonder why you think that? For great justice. 18:06, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
• Weak delete - a minor party candidate is not notable, and I don't think there is enough info about his role as the chief economist to sway things in his favour.Blnguyen | Have your say!!! 03:43, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment, agree with your argument, just a note that the NDP is one of 4 major political parties in Canada. -- Samir (the scope) 04:43, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. Ardenn 04:00, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
• Delete or Merge/Redirect to the NDP candidates, 2006 Canadian federal election page, absent any other notability. --Calton | Talk 04:38, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
• Merge to NDP candidates, 2006 Canadian federal election, don't think his background beyond the election warrants notability -- Samir (the scope) 04:43, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. I would normally vote to merge to NDP candidates, 2006 Canadian federal election with other losing candidates, but Summerville was one of the NDP's star candidates in that election and notable as a bank economist running for the NDP. see: [1], [2], etc. Luigizanasi 05:35, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
• Keep considerable media attention, and I agree with Luigi. Sjakkalle (Check!) 06:19, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
• Summerville was an NDP star candidate in the Canadian federal election, 2006, whose candidacy attracted a lot of media attention precisely because the idea of a bank economist running for a leftish party struck many people as odd or amusing. (The media do like to promulgate the myth that the NDP are somewhere in the ideological vicinity of Josef Stalin, for some reason.) Furthermore, he ran in one of the highest-profile riding races in the country, against Carolyn Bennett and Peter Kent. I'd consider this a keep, though if the consensus went that way I could reluctantly live with a merge into NDP candidates, 2006 Canadian federal election (although that compromise solution is starting to cause problems of its own). It's absolutely not a delete, though. Bearcat 02:07, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
• Keep; notable as an economist alone even before he became a political figure. Samaritan 03:05, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per WP:BIO or Merge if that helps reach consensus.--Isotope23 20:09, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment. WP:BIO states: Major local political figures who receive significant press coverage. I believe this applies to Summerville, hence my vote to keep. He probably got more press coverage in Canada during the election than any other NDP candidate, except the party leader. Luigizanasi 23:01, 7 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.