Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chris Southall


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The result was   delete. j⚛e deckertalk 13:59, 5 October 2014 (UTC)

Chris Southall

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Article created to promote a candidacy at a forthcoming by-election. Fails WP:NPOL. Most of article is promotional material using non-RS, non-independent sources. Insufficient to pass WP:GNG Bondegezou (talk) 07:53, 28 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete Non notable Green Party candidate who fails WP:GNG Theroadislong (talk) 09:24, 28 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. NorthAmerica1000 14:32, 28 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of United Kingdom-related deletion discussions. NorthAmerica1000 14:34, 28 September 2014 (UTC)


 * Delete per above - Fails NPOL + GNG. – Davey 2010 •  (talk)  20:36, 28 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete per above. No prejudice against recreation if he wins the by-election, but WP:NPOL does not grant unelected candidates in by-elections (or even in general elections) any automatic entitlement to keep a Wikipedia article — if you cannot credibly source that the person was already notable enough for a Wikipedia article under a different inclusion criterion before they were named a candidate, then they have to win the election, not merely run in it, to become notable enough for a Wikipedia article. Bearcat (talk) 20:40, 29 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep WP:GNG His involvement in the 1967 UFO Hoax is sufficient to meet the GNG as it was widely reported at the time.
 * The sources that have been added to support that assertion just briefly namecheck him, while completely failing to constitute coverage of him that's substantive enough, or sufficient in volume, to actually get him over WP:GNG for that. Those sources might support a topic article about the UFO incident which merely mentions his name as an unwikified participant, but they do not support a standalone WP:BLP about him as an individual. Bearcat (talk) 21:53, 29 September 2014 (UTC)


 * Delete Nothing to show he merits his own article. Being a candidate is not sufficient for NPOL. 131.118.229.17 (talk) 18:54, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
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