Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Richard Boyd Barrett

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 (non-admin closure) — Caknuck 05:12, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Richard Boyd Barrett

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An unsuccessful candidate in the recent Irish election who doesn't meet WP:notability. Page appears to have been created on the grounds that he might be elected. He wasn't and so it should be deleted. Valenciano 19:03, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

Keep. True, RBB was not elected. However, he is a prominent figure in the Irish left-wing scene, playing a leading role in the Irish Anti-War Movement, the Socialist Workers Party as well as the People Before Profit Alliance. RBB is a regular feature in the Irish media, and has appeared on radio, television, and recently wrote an opinion piece for the Irish Times.--Damac 19:23, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

• Keep, he seems to have some claim to notability as an activist[1], and there are numerous Google News Archive results preceding the campaign. --Dhartung | Talk 19:25, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. The article Dhartung provided above is written by the socialist party that he is in. The things he is an activist for are also rather common, anti-Bush rallies and anti-privatisation. He is a rather trivial politician. --David Andréas 19:32, 3 July 2007 (UTC) Weak Keep - after Dhartung's comment below I believe relative notability is established (although I can find news articles from Google News on little known city councilmen in my area), but 160 articles is significant... but I would like to see the article expanded and improved ... if anyone knows more about him. --David Andréas 18:27, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment The content of the article suggests that Barrett has claims to notability beyond his political campaign. I did not make the assumption that because the Socialist Party wrote about one of its candidates, notability is established. The man has 160 Google News Archive results, as I indicated, many of which are reliable sources that back up the claims in the press release that I linked to. --Dhartung | Talk 20:19, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
• Keep The Google results, which should be added as appropriate to the article, include articles with him being a focus from at least a dozen Irish newspapers, & significant mentions in major international news sources--CBS, the Observer, The Mirror, ... Unless one believes that no socialist politician can ever be important, then he's important, quite independently of the election.DGG 03:56, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

• Comment I don't think its a matter of whether he is socialist or not, but rather that he has notable impact and publicity, which I think Dhartung has somewhat established. Anyhow, growing up in the U.S.S.R, socialist politicians came a dime a dozen. I think I've come to believe, dependent on what the political majority is in a country, that writing a bio on every political activist is rather counterproductive. But, if he is important in Ireland then so be it. --David Andréas 18:33, 5 July 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.