Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/James Burn (politician)


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The result was delete.  So Why  12:18, 7 June 2017 (UTC)

James Burn (politician)
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Appears to be an individual who is simply a local councillor who ran for a regional mayoralty and failed to retain their deposit in that election. The articles in the page are not articles which confer individual notability on to the subject. The subject is incidental to those articles. As such the subject fails the notability criteria for inclusion on Wikipedia. Sport and politics (talk) 22:34, 30 May 2017 (UTC)
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 * Delete. Neither borough councillors nor non-winning mayoral candidates are deemed to pass WP:NPOL for those facts per se — but the depth and breadth of sourcing here is not enough to get him over WP:GNG in lieu. Of the seven sources here, three are primary sources that cannot assist notability at all, leaving us with just four pieces of reliable source media coverage — but campaign coverage falls under WP:ROUTINE, because everybody who was ever a candidate in any election anywhere could always show that much coverage. To earn a Wikipedia article, people at this level of significance have to be shown as significantly more notable than the norm for this level of significance — but nothing here shows that at all. Bearcat (talk) 06:08, 2 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete. Non notable local politician, fails WP:NPOL.  Y intan  23:18, 3 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete - we Wikipedians have decided that local politicians such as borough councilors are just not notable. I do not see that consensus changing anytime soon. Bearian (talk) 00:26, 5 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Weak Delete Green Party politicians being elected is fairly rare in most countries, so if there was something relating to that point that could be added, this piece might nudge just above notability requirements. Until that point though, he unfortunately is not significant enough to warrant an article. South Nashua (talk) 12:57, 6 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete - He's not the Mayor. Fails WP:GNG and WP:POLOUTCOMES. Me-123567-Me (talk) 21:56, 6 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete as fails to pass the bar for N Legacypac (talk) 05:48, 7 June 2017 (UTC)


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