Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Weyman Bennett

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The result was delete. --Akhilleus (talk) 22:04, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Weyman Bennett

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Subject is clearly not a notable political figure - fails Wikipedia policy for notability for politician which determine that only those politicians "who have held international, national or statewide/provincewide office, and members and former members of a national, state or provincial legislatures." or are "(m)ajor local political figures who have received significant press coverage" are notable. Bennett is neither. As an aside, I note that there are great number of RESPECT/SWP based biographies added for very very minor fringe party figures - I suspect activists create them. This guy's never held elected office and is really only known to cognoscenti of the left fringe Delete Bigdaddy1981 04:22, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

• Delete Clearly does not meet guidelines on notability for politicians. Being a random staffer on a random party - mainstream or otherwise - does not cut it, imo. Resolute 04:47, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
• Keep I did a websearch on "Weyman Bennett Trotskyist" and picked up quite a few articles on Weyman---enough to establish notability in my eyes.Balloonman 04:49, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
• Delete Doesn't hold elected office. If failed candidates don't make it onto wikipedia, then minor party officials are even lower down the pecking order. Google hits on far left websites don't constitute 'significant press coverage'. For instance this is from the 'Weekly Worker' from June 29 2000 - "New LSA advance - Weyman Bennett last week won an impressive 885 votes for the London Socialist Alliance in the Tottenham parliamentary by-election. Comrade Bennett's 5.39% was enough to save his deposit, and he easily beat the Green Party candidate to finish fourth behind the main bourgeois parties." doesn't speak of a major political career. Nick mallory 05:00, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. Insufficient notability. Web hits don't cut it. Doczilla 07:16, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politics-related deletions. -- John Vandenberg 13:13, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

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