Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Allan De Genova


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The result was Delete. czar ⨹   01:47, 1 December 2014 (UTC)

Allan De Genova

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WP:BLP of a politician whose only elected office held, to date, is the Vancouver municipal parks board. This is not an office that passes WP:NPOL, and the only other substantive claim of notability really being made here is that he ran for, but failed to secure, his party's nomination as mayoral candidate in 2008 (and even if he'd won that, he still wouldn't be able to claim notability on that basis alone — if a person doesn't already have enough preexisting notability to get over some other inclusion standard, then they have to win the general election, not merely run in it, to pass NPOL.) And the cited sources are only covering him in the context of those non-notable roles, and there aren't enough of them being cited to claim a WP:GNG pass in the first place. Delete. Bearcat (talk) 08:10, 16 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. NorthAmerica1000 08:45, 16 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of British Columbia-related deletion discussions. NorthAmerica1000 08:45, 16 November 2014 (UTC)


 * Delete - Per WP:NPOL: "Just being an elected local official, or an unelected candidate for political office, does not guarantee notability" - "A politician who has received "significant press coverage" has been written about, in depth, independently in multiple news feature articles, by journalists.". ŞůṜīΣĻ ¹98¹ Speak 06:24, 20 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, j⚛e deckertalk 05:17, 24 November 2014 (UTC)


 * Delete Merely running for office does not guarantee notability. Fails to meet the GNG or WP:NPOL. 131.118.229.17 (talk) 21:32, 25 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete Parks Board members of generally not notable, and coming in 3rd in the party primary for mayor of a city does not make one notable either.John Pack Lambert (talk) 07:19, 27 November 2014 (UTC)
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