Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Aron Boström

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The result of the debate was delete. Joyous 22:42, Jan 22, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Aron Boström

Not notable or encyclopedic. Apparently autobiographical article (the IP seems to give it away) by a 20-year old Wikipedia user and engineering student at Lund University who is also the leader of a very minor regional political party, Skånefederalisterna. The goals of the 2-year old party, which claims to have 50 members, is to give Scania more independence within a federation with the rest of Sweden, and to change the official spelling of the name of the city of Kristianstad to Christianstad. (Party website.) No seats won in any elections, as far as I can see. I searched Swedish media, and found only two brief mentionings in the regional evening paper Kvällsposten, and some letters to the editor. Even if the party would deserve an article, which I doubt, it is so minor that individual representatives certainly do not. / up+land 10:22, 16 Jan 2005 (UTC)

  • Userfy and Delete, Inter 13:28, 16 Jan 2005 (UTC)
  • Unverifiable. Delete - David Gerard 14:23, 16 Jan 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete! (Huh?! Have I been severly drunk, or has someone borrowed my computer/IP?) Certainly neither notable nor encyclopedic. (Though the party is not as minor as Uppland seem to think; 1 TV news broadcast, 5-6 radio broadcasts, 4-5 articles yet alone in Kb newspaper and dozens of mentionings in other papers, including the three major papers SDS, SkD and HD) I'm not entirely certain 194...206 was my IP adress as of 15:38, 13 Apr 2004, but it propably was. --Aron Boström 14:34, 16 Jan 2005 (UTC)
    • As the subject you don't get a vote ;-) And from the evidence you list, this is in fact verifiable and encyclopaedic. So I'm afraid I have to vote keep! - David Gerard 22:24, 16 Jan 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete as even the creator (above) seems to want it deleted. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 16:29, Jan 16, 2005 (UTC)
  • An article on Skånefederalisterna would be notable, but delete Aron Boström (at this time)... Samaritan 21:43, 16 Jan 2005 (UTC)
    • Move this article there, leaving this as a redirect - David Gerard 22:39, 16 Jan 2005 (UTC)
      • ...what he said. Samaritan 10:11, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC)
        • Indeed. I get the feeling that the article was created by someone other than the subject - possibly a close friend or family member. When he becomes notable in his own right (apart from the party), re-create article and add to category "Wikipedians with their own article" (or whatever it is). Alphax (t) (c) (e) 12:41, Jan 21, 2005 (UTC)
          • The IP is in this case traceable to a particular dormitory room in Lund, but I can easily imagine a friend borrowing his computer and writing this as a practical joke. / up+land 00:24, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC)
    • If the Skånefederalisterna have been mentioned more often in the press than I could find with my newspaper text database search, I think we would need some more references. At present, once the specific biographical details are removed at the move to a new title, there isn't much left of the article. / up+land 00:24, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC)
  • Does one TV news broadcast and a few press clippings make you notable? No. Delete. Can't agree with the proposition that an article about a newly formed organisation with 50 members would be relevant either. Articles about campus societies that have been around longer and have more members have been deleted as non-notable. Possibly a brief mention in Scanian nationalism - but that would be stretching it. Alarm 22:14, 20 Jan 2005 (UTC)
    • There should probably be an article on Scanian nationalism (or regionalism or separatism or whatever). Personally I don't know enough about it to write one. / up+land 00:24, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete I've been on TV several times as well as on radio and in the newspapers tens of times and received more votes in parliamentary elections than this person ever will. And I don't consider myself notable. --EnSamulili 12:34, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)

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