Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Colin George Atkins


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was delete. Sarahj2107 (talk) 14:42, 8 December 2016 (UTC)

Colin George Atkins

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Delete. WP:BLP of a person notable only as a non-winning candidate for political office, and sourced only to a single (deadlinked) table of raw election results with no evidence of reliable source coverage shown at all. As always, non-winning political candidates do not get Wikipedia articles just because they exist; either they have to win the seat or you have to source them over WP:GNG, but neither of those things have happened here. Bearcat (talk) 03:09, 30 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete - Unable to locate any secondary sources to support notability. This bio is detailed but is published by his political party.  Most other mentions of him are one-liners.  Magnolia677 (talk) 03:15, 30 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Not only was that link published by his political party, as you point out, but what it says about him is literally a copy-paste of our article. Do even they really know that little about him that they can't pad it out with some extended detail? Bearcat (talk) 15:04, 30 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Manitoba-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 14:50, 30 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 14:50, 30 November 2016 (UTC)
 * I support the article's content, where relevant, being incorporated into a general article concerning party candidates. There is no justification for a separate article for an unsuccessful candidate, unless he or she is a perennial like John Turmel. I myself have run federally seven times, and Baird Judson eight times, and I don't thing we need articles.GBC (talk) 04:08, 1 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Just to be clear, while it's true that some old "candidate list" articles are still following a "merged collection of minibios" format, they aren't actually allowed to follow that format anymore — the rules for what such an article is actually allowed to contain have been tightened up considerably, and some of the old articles that predated the current rules just haven't been getting cleaned up. Due to WP:BLP rules, the candidate lists are now restricted to a format like Ontario Liberal Party candidates, 2011 Ontario provincial election, in which the allowable personal information is extremely limited, and aren't allowed to contain biographical sketches anymore. So there's really not much here, besides his name, that can be incorporated anywhere else. Bearcat (talk) 18:53, 2 December 2016 (UTC)


 * Delete non-notable defeated candidate.John Pack Lambert (talk) 00:21, 3 December 2016 (UTC)


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