Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sheila White (politician)

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 Consensus to keep. Until(1 == 2) 15:45, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sheila White (politician)

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Failed candidate. Fails WP:BIO. Delete GreenJoe 20:49, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

• Delete. Notability not inherited. No assertion that multiple failed candidacies are notable. Canuckle 22:56, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
• Delete as nothing more than a career party functionary who lost. Montco 00:55, 31 July 2007 (UTC) Merge and redirect per Bearcat. Montco 05:13, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
• Keep Cite specific paragraph and sentence in WP:BIO. Just saying it doesn't meet notability based on WP:BIO is insufficient. Maybe this person did receive a lot of press, which according to WP:BIO#Criteria for notability of people, under the section for politicians which states, "[m]ajor local political figures who have received significant press coverage[,]" means she would be notable. To my limited knowledge, she has received such coverage in numerous print TV and radio media, which means she meets the criteria for being included in Wikipedia. I'm not commenting on the quality of the article, as I have had to revert blatant POV on it recently, but that does not mean that you should throw out the proverbial baby with the bath water. --Abebenjoe 04:21, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
• Canadian electoral candidates are never deleted from Wikipedia. If they're not deemed notable enough for their own articles, then they get merged into a list such as New Democratic Party candidates, 2003 Ontario provincial election (the fact that she was a byelection candidate after the election isn't relevant; we still put those into the articles on the preceding general election.) Bearcat 04:40, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
• Keep -- Earl Andrew - talk 22:48, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
• Keep as a perennial candidate. Failing that, merge per Bearcat. Ground Zero | t 15:46, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
• Keep—I think Abebenjoe may be right about her coverage in the Toronto media, although the only article I can dig up at the moment is this. --Paul Erik 06:05, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

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