Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rebecca Coad

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The result was merge to New Democratic Party candidates, 2006 Canadian federal election. Will tag accordingly. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 13:08, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Rebecca Coad

Rebecca Coad (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) (delete) – (View log)

NN candidate. Fails Wikipedia:Notability (people)#Politicians as the subject of the article has not been elected and the article has not provided any evidence from verifiable and reliable sources and that the subject is notable for inclusion in the encyclopedia. The article used as a reference isn't even about the subject, therefore the article fails WP:RS and WP:V. nat.utoronto 18:04, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

• Note: This debate has been included in the list of British Columbia-related deletion discussions. —nat.utoronto 18:08, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions. —nat.utoronto 18:08, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions. —nat.utoronto 18:09, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
• Merge to New Democratic Party candidates, 2006 Canadian federal election per standard practice for unelected candidates. Bearcat (talk) 18:13, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
• Merge as suggested by Bearcat. Reggie Perrin (talk) 18:15, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
• Merge. This was funny. I thought I recognized the name ...and I did from the signs outside last week. Yup, not-elected. Not notable for own article. Merge to New Democratic Party candidates, 2006 Canadian federal election. Cheers! Wassupwestcoast (talk) 18:34, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
• Merge with haste. Should be largely uncontroversial. theProject (talk) 18:39, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
• No objection to merge. It would not bother me if this article was kept, however as Ms. Coad was not elected, merging the article would seem to make sense. Note: As a response to the AfD nominator; the citation (#1) on the article is an inline citation that specifically refers to the fact that the seat was vacant, it refered only to that fact, and is a perfectly reliable source. Patrick Hennessey (Speak) 21:04, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

  Note. Merging to New Democratic Party candidates, 2006 Canadian federal election would be okay, but only if a section were created for the by-elections held on March 17th, 2008; as this is technically a seperate election from the 2006 general election. Patrick Hennessey (Speak) 21:09, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

It would get a separate subsection, yes. The main reason they get merged to the prior general election is because there's no other suitable redirect target. Bearcat (talk) 01:22, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

That makes sense to me, as a by-election is a seperate election, but is still derived from a general election. Patrick Hennessey (Speak) 18:54, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. NN failed candidate. GreenJoe 20:51, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Failed candidates do not get deleted from Wikipedia. They get merged into lists. Bearcat (talk) 05:41, 20 March 2008 (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.