Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Greg Bonser (2nd nomination)


 * 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. postdlf (talk) 03:31, 30 March 2011 (UTC)

Greg Bonser
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Candidate in previous election. Never elected. Doesn't meet WP:BIO criteria for anything else. This article was previously speedy deleted in 2005 but it somehow snuck back in.
 * Recommend delete or redirect to Green Party of Canada candidates, 2004 Canadian federal election. Suttungr (talk) 15:58, 22 March 2011 (UTC)
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 * Delete per nom. - Pictureprovince (talk) 17:32, 22 March 2011 (UTC)
 * For what it's worth, the original 2005 version of the article consisted solely of the text Greg Bonser lives in the South Riverdale community in Toronto. He is a Real Estate Developer and a community activist on issues of ecological health. So the fact that it was deleted doesn't, in and of itself, preclude this version of the article from existing, as it's too different from the original to qualify for G4 speedy. Ergo, it's not a matter of "somehow snuck back in" — we have to consider this on its own merits. That said, its own merits are still virtually nonexistent: as written, he fails to meet any of WP:POLITICIAN, WP:BIO or even WP:GNG. The article is completely unsourced, and parts of it (particularly the claim that all the other candidates in the race privately confided that he was their second choice) are entirely unverifiable. Our practice for unelected political candidates who don't have notability on other grounds has traditionally been to redirect them to a party candidates list rather than deleting them outright, however, so this should be redirected to Green Party of Canada candidates, 2004 Canadian federal election — but don't merge this article's content, as there's nothing properly referenced to merge. Bearcat (talk) 22:15, 22 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Redirect to candidate page. Not notable for anything else. EncyclopediaUpdaticus (talk) 03:28, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete without a redirect. Failed political candidate with no other claim to notability. The highest office he ran for was city council, so a redirect to the federal election article is inappropriate. --MelanieN (talk) 15:42, 28 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Comment Actually, Bonser did run as a candidate for the Federal riding of Scarborough Centre in 2004 even though the article doesn't say so. I recommended redirect since this seemed to be the most notable of his election attempts. Suttungr (talk) 00:23, 29 March 2011 (UTC)
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