Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Brian Walker (Attorney and Politician)


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The result was Delete. --MelanieN (talk) 23:57, 13 May 2015 (UTC)

Brian Walker (Attorney and Politician)

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Non-notable attorney lacking non-trivial support. Although the individual ran for office, he was not elected. red dogsix (talk) 22:19, 6 May 2015 (UTC)

Comment:- Subject of the article is known for politics and judiciary. Per significant coverages in multiple independent reliable sources, WP:BASIC may be satisfied. Apart from the sources already in the article, I also found University College London, The Columbian News, this review and this one. However, having contested an election does not confers notablity and losing such election does not undermine the notability of a subject if they are notable for other event. Wikic¤l¤gyt@lk to M£ 23:25, 6 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Comment - Not sure how you can infer from my comment a lost election negates notability and not sure how the articles you referred to confer notability. The first one just just shows he was part of a project team, the second is not about him and only quotes him as the defense attorney, and the last two are simply listings.  Am I missing something here?  red dogsix (talk) 23:44, 6 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions.  lavender |(formerly HMSSolent )| lambast  00:22, 7 May 2015 (UTC)
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 * Delete - the article does not show notability, either as an attorney or a politician.--Rpclod (talk) 02:09, 7 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Law-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 14:07, 7 May 2015 (UTC)


 * A person does not qualify for a Wikipedia article just for being a candidate in an election he didn't win — Walker's eligibility for an article rests entirely on being able to make a credible and properly sourced case that he gets over WP:LAWYERS for his work as a lawyer. But that hasn't been demonstrated here, as this relies almost entirely on primary sources such as his profiles on the websites of organizations he's directly involved in. And Wikicology's sources above do not improve the case — two of the four are promotional profiles on directory sites (which is not what gets a person into Wikipedia); one is a WordPress blog entry in which he's not the subject, but the author; and the only one which counts as media coverage (The Columbian) is a small regional newspaper that's not widely distributed enough to power a person over WP:GNG all by itself if it's the only non-primary source you've got. And further, Walker isn't the subject of the article, but merely a side player who appears only as a soundbite provider in an article about something else. So no, his notability as a lawyer has not been adequately demonstrated here. Delete, without prejudice against recreation in the future if a sufficient volume of proper media coverage shows up. Bearcat (talk) 15:26, 9 May 2015 (UTC)
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