Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rick Barsky

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 redirect (necessary merging has taken place) Proto||type 12:06, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Rick Barsky

NN. Running and losing in multiple election does not give one a claim to noteability, that has been established in the past. Since that seems to be his only claim to noteability, he doesn't meet WP:BIO. pm_shef 21:55, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. Ardenn 22:13, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. Consensus is clear that unsuccessful candidates in national elections pass the bar, at the very least to be merged and redirected to (not deleting the original article, to save the edit history per GFDL). Having run for multiple parties in multiple elections, there's no immediately obvious destination, but if that'll be the only way to retain the information, merge. Samaritan 22:59, 11 April 2006 (UTC) ...and if so merged, per Bearcat below. Samaritan 00:47, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
• Merge at best to an article about the election. Prefer delete. Stifle (talk) 00:29, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
• While I realize that not everybody agrees on the notability of unelected political candidates, the precedent has already been set that federal candidates are entitled at least to inclusion in a merged list. Either keep or merge into a Green Party candidate list (I'd be inclined to consider that his most notable electoral attempt, given their popular vote totals in '04/'06 compared to the National Party's in '93, or CAP's ever...or what the hey, copy and paste the same blurb into every relevant candidate list); precedent already excludes outright deletion as an option. Bearcat 00:45, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
• Merge or Delete. There are too many of these losing candidates with no other claim to notability. Fan1967 01:42, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
• Merge into New Democratic Party candidates, 2004 Canadian federal election. Should also be mentioned in Green Party candidates, 2006 Canadian federal election along with other defeated candidates. Luigizanasi 05:57, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
• I've merged this page with the 2006 Green Party candidates page, in accordance with Wikipedia precedent. Nothing more to see here ... CJCurrie 20:05, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

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