Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Adrian Heald


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The result was   delete. j⚛e deckertalk 02:09, 22 September 2014 (UTC)

Adrian Heald

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Heald is a prospective parliamentary candidate and as such fails WP:POLITICIAN. He's an unelected candidate and has not received significant coverage in reliable sources. What little coverage there has been is routine "he's the Labour candidate for x constituency" and does not meet WP:GNG or WP:POLITICIAN. Tiller54 (talk) 20:45, 14 September 2014 (UTC)
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 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of England-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 01:38, 15 September 2014 (UTC)


 * Strong delete. Clearly doesn't meet WP:POLITICIAN. On a related note, User:Rathfelder has created similar articles for several other Labour Party candidates. I have PROD'd several and put on a note on his/her Talk page, but would welcome further review from other editors. Bondegezou (talk) 14:34, 15 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete - seems premature. Articles on minor political candidates are best not created until after the election, when it's clear whether they've won or lost; unsuccessful political candidates are usually not notable unless they have received a particularly significant amount of media attention. This one hasn't, so far. Robofish (talk) 20:28, 15 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete. Simply being an as-yet-unelected candidate in an ongoing or future election is not, in and of itself, adequate notability to justify a Wikipedia article under WP:NPOL — either you demonstrate that the candidate was already notable enough to qualify for an article under a different inclusion criterion before they were named a candidate, or they do not become notable enough for a Wikipedia article until they win the election. Bearcat (talk) 21:51, 15 September 2014 (UTC)


 * The fact that Heald is an NHS consultant makes his candidature in itself noteworthy. Rathfelder (talk) 18:28, 16 September 2014 (UTC)
 * NHS consultants don't get an automatic presumption of notability in Wikipedia either, if enough coverage isn't there to get them past WP:GNG. Bearcat (talk) 13:14, 17 September 2014 (UTC)
 * I think Rathfelder is making the argument that a consultant being a candidate is an inherently noteworthy event, although I feel that is something that would have to be said by a reliable source to carry weight. Bondegezou (talk) 10:28, 18 September 2014 (UTC)


 * Exactly. The NHS has suddenly become a much more potent political issue and NHS staff standing for election becomes more noteworthy. Rathfelder (talk) 10:39, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete as per WP:POLITICIAN BlueSalix (talk) 05:06, 20 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:NPOL.-- danntm T C 23:52, 21 September 2014 (UTC)
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