Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/David Farhat


 * 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   keep.  kur  ykh   03:57, 6 February 2010 (UTC)

David Farhat

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This article is about a non-notable politician who was never elected (he placed 16th out of 22 candidates, receiving only 0.5% of the vote). All information on this person is already included within the Liberian general election, 2005 article. Onthegogo (talk) 23:11, 29 January 2010 (UTC) The following articles should also be added to this discussion:
 * Alfred Reeves
 * George Kiadii
 * John Morlu
 * Margaret Tor-Thompson
 * Robert Kpoto
 * Roland Massaquoi
 * Samuel Raymond Divine
 * William V.S. Tubman, Jr.
 * Onthegogo (talk) 23:29, 29 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Notability of other articles will not be debated here. Onthegogo (talk) 20:44, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Africa-related deletion discussions.  —  Gongshow  Talk 02:02, 30 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions.  —  Gongshow  Talk 02:04, 30 January 2010 (UTC)
 *  Delete all - Concur with nominator. There are not enough significant sources to establish notability or flesh out these articles at present. Risker (talk) 03:51, 30 January 2010 (UTC)
 * On returning to this, I see that one of the other commentators has done an improved sorting of information about Farhat (my googling was showing a US politician, which was not remotely helpful). With a bit of playing around, I note that it is possible that at least one other of this list was a former cabinet member in Liberia. Therefore, I withdraw my delete opinion. I do not believe that the inherent notability of all people who put themselves forward as candidates for high office, as advocated by Thomas.macmillan below, is necessarily well translated to all countries, but I do believe cabinet members will meet notability standards. Nonetheless, single-sentence stub articles such as this are not particularly useful to the reader. I'd suggest merging and redirecting these articles together into a List of presidential candidates in the 2005 Liberia election, where the information currently available can be placed into context, but still permit development of individual articles as more research is done. I note that a lot of the sources that are coming up on Google search are behind pay walls, raising the question of accessibility of the information. Risker (talk) 07:03, 30 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Keep all I added a source to Samuel Raymond Divine which definitely justifies keeping. As for the others, candidates for Presidents are considered notable, see .--TM 04:35, 30 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep He's a former Finance Minister. Each of the other candidates included in this nomination should be considered on their merits, not as a group. That way we don't delete notable people, like Farhat. --Mkativerata (talk) 05:27, 30 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Procedural comment you should relist each article individually and reconsider which you want to delete. I have personally expanded and aded references to a number of them and will continue to do so. Arguing here over notability of all of them is pointless.--TM 13:07, 30 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Individual Keep. Agree with the procedural comment and my keep relates only to Farhat. Meets the criteria of WP:POLITICIAN in that he has held national office.
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.