Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/William Findlater

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 Keep  (aeropagitica)  (talk)  17:32, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] William Findlater

Non-notable local (as opposed to national) politician with no specified achievements. BlueValour 22:30, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

• Keep He's part of political history and this seems to be a rather exhaustive compilation which would be incomplete without him Category:Manitoba_MLAs. I've more than once followed a list backwards of political people just see whats there. --Crossmr 22:35, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. If he's a real person, there's no reason to delete. JoaoRicardo^talk 22:48, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. He's not a local (ie. municipal) politician, he's a provincial politician. There's an established practice of keeping pages like this. CJCurrie 23:39, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per other users -- getcrunkjuice^contribs 23:56, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
• Strong Keep. Passes WP:BIO easily. BoojiBoy 00:10, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. I was going to say delete until I read the other comments and came to a better understanding of Wiki policy. The article, however, really needs some info on notabality. Right now there's only the fact of serving and nothing on acts of signficance, even at a provincial level. Interlingua ^talk 00:55, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
  • I'm affraid I disagree with you here. If someone wins an election for a legislative body of a province/state/department/etc, we should have an article for that person, even if he/she did nothing outstanding in office, because there's still a good chance people will look up information about him/her. JoaoRicardo^talk 01:33, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
• Strong keep per CJCurrie. Ardenn 02:22, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep - elected provincial legislator. Homey 19:00, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per WP:BIO and precedent. --Rob 04:10, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
• While policy as written is admittedly a bit ambiguous on the subject, WP convention has clearly determined that people duly elected to the legislature of a state or province are sufficiently notable to be kept. So, yep, keep it. Bearcat 08:59, 17 June 2006 (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.