Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/James Oates

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was DELETE. Golbez 06:44, Jun 18, 2005 (UTC)

James Oates
Non-notable losing parliamentary candidate. There are thousands of them and very few deserve articles. Joolz 02:01, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete him until elected. &mdash; Chameleon 12:52, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Winning would have made him encyclopaedia-worthy. Absent that, there has to be some other factor that makes this person satisfy the WP:BIO criteria, which as the article stands there currently is not. Delete. Uncle G 13:48, 2005 Jun 11 (UTC)
 * Delete as per User:Uncle G. Double Blue  (Talk) 15:17, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete --Phroziac 17:38, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * delete lacks notability --TimPope 23:09, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment. I agree that unsuccessful political candidates aren't notable unless they've done additional stuff to make them so. In fact I argued as much here and here -- with no success. So now I have to play Devil's Advocate and ask: Why is Mr. Oates less notable than other unsuccessful politicians? Isaac R 01:53, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * So, can this article be expanded beyond a stub? -- Phroziac (talk) 04:17, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Deleete nn.  Grue   13:22, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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