Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Catriona Bhatia


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The result was delete. Kurykh (talk) 00:28, 28 April 2017 (UTC)

Catriona Bhatia

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Non-notable local councillor and failed candidate for a general election. Tagged for notability for seven years. MilborneOne (talk) 18:08, 20 April 2017 (UTC)
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 * Keep. Plenty of national news media coverage, quite sufficient to meet WP:SECONDARY.  Fiachra10003 (talk) 21:06, 20 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Comment but as a local politician cleary doesnt meet the notability criteria for a politician ref POLOUTCOMES MilborneOne (talk) 17:06, 21 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete. Local councillors are not automatically eligible for Wikipedia articles just for serving on local councils, but the sourcing here is not strong enough to get her over WP:GNG in lieu. Of the eight references here, three are WP:ROUTINE coverage in the local media where such coverage is merely expected to exist for all councillors regardless of whether they clear our notability requirements or not; another three are in Scotland-wide media outlets' local news sections for the specific local area where she's a councillor, and thus is still simply routine and expected; and of the remaining two, one is a mere table of election results in a national newspaper's comprehensive local election results section in which every councillor or council candidate across the entire United Kingdom would have a "profile" with as much information as that, and thus is still merely routine and expected. And Times #3, the only source in the entire bunch which suggests the possibility of more than purely routine and expected coverage, is (a) a deadlink whose content is unverifiable, and (b) strongly implied by its headline to have actually been in the context of who her father is rather than in the context of anything she did in her own right. But notability is WP:NOTINHERITED — so if there's not enough substance or sourcing to deem her notable because of who she is, then she doesn't get a free pass over the bar just for being the daughter of someone who does. Simply put, none of this is enough. Bearcat (talk) 05:01, 24 April 2017 (UTC)
 * I repaired the dead link to the Times article, which interview both her and her father. Try WP:GOOGLETESTing her - there's enough press out there to make it clear that Ms. Bhatia has much more coverage than the average councillor.  Personally, I wonder if WP:NOTINHERITED is a better argument for deletion because it's not clear to me that Ms. Bhatia would get all this press coverage if she was not David Steel's daughter. Fiachra10003 (talk) 17:58, 24 April 2017 (UTC)


 * Delete: Article doesn't provide evidence of genuine notability. A fair amount of coverage in independent media, but much of it stems from being David Steel's daughter rather than anything notable in her own right. All mentions of her first establish her family ties - if anything, this would warrant a paragraph in a "family" section on David Steel's page rather than a page of it's own. A large number of sources refer to a single event - her losing her council post. In this respect I don't think she has met WP:POLITICIAN as she has not received any significant press coverage beyond this single event (see WP:SINGLEEVENT). The guidance stipulated for single-event notables would seem to being towards a redirect into David Steel's article, although I personally don't think the story is really notable enough for that. The fact that she has been elected to an office and held a cabinet role as a result of it does not on its own establish her notability. Nor does her candidacy in the 2017 General Election. Maswimelleu (talk) 11:35, 26 April 2017 (UTC)


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