Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Graham Smith (activist)


 * 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 redirect to Republic (political organization). Consensus could reasonably read as delete, but the redirect makes sense per WP:ATD. -- RoySmith (talk) 20:21, 14 April 2018 (UTC)

Graham Smith (activist)

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Non-notable activist. Fails WP:BIO and only sources in article have 2 from organisations that he worked for and 1 from the Daily Mail (which some consider unreliable)  The C of E God Save the Queen!  ( talk ) 17:20, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete: As nominator.  The C of E God Save the Queen!  ( talk ) 17:21, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Note to closing admin -- This !vote is by the nominator contra to WP:AFDLIST. I previously struck the duplicate per custom but this editor reverted me.  Not wanting to edit-war, I'm leaving this note instead. 192.160.216.52 (talk) 13:05, 11 April 2018 (UTC)


 * Keep -- A deletion argument based on the sources in the article is well-known to be deficient per WP:ARTN. This guy clearly meets GNG per any number of sources and interviews (see WP:INTERVIEW for relation of interviews to notability.)  See just e.g., , , and on and on and on. Another failure of WP:BEFORE. 192.160.216.52 (talk) 18:34, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete being a person who spouts off their ideas in a paper is not a sign of notability.John Pack Lambert (talk) 04:51, 7 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions.  MT Train Talk 05:05, 7 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of United Kingdom-related deletion discussions.  MT Train Talk 05:05, 7 April 2018 (UTC)


 * Delete per nom. Being in some chat-show producers's Rolodexes is NOT even close to meeting GNG. --Calton | Talk 09:02, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep The fact that the user trying to delete the page is a monarchist should explain a lot. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.44.74.19 (talk) 12:00, 11 April 2018 (UTC)
 * — 217.44.74.19 (talk) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
 * The IP's first edit is this one and argumentum ad hominum is used, which implies this is not a genuine !vote.  The C of E God Save the Queen!  ( talk ) 20:32, 11 April 2018 (UTC)


 * Redirect to Republic (political organization) the outfit he has headed up since 2005. He's not nobody, he gets quoted in the press regularly and has done since 2005 when he became head of Republic. I have not read the hundreds of articles where he is quoted, but I scanned a couple of dozen of them looking at the text surrounding his highlighted name.  It always starts  like this one, "Graham Smith, a spokesman for Republic, a pressure group calling for the democratic replacement of the monarchy by an elected head of state, said:..." (BNP leader to attend Queen's garden party at the Palace, The Scotsman, 21 May 2009).  Links brought by IP 192.160.216.52 are  of this type.    Please feel free to ping me if you find a profile or enough info to source a WP:BASIC bio, I am always glad to resonsider an iVote. E.M.Gregory (talk) 15:02, 11 April 2018 (UTC)


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