Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/James Pearson (Politician)


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The result was   delete. Tone 00:49, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

James Pearson (Politician)

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Non-notable per WP:POLITICIAN, no significant coverage online from regional or national press or other WP:Reliable sources, apparent WP:Conflict of interest by article's creator. Prod contested by creator. MuffledThud (talk) 14:10, 2 January 2010 (UTC)
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 * Delete. Has received a minor amount of coverage in the local papers; not a politician of note. Fences  &amp;  Windows  14:29, 2 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete. Fails WP:POLITICIAN and WP:BIO by a long way. --Mkativerata (talk) 20:23, 2 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment. Whilst the subject of the article doesn't seem to meet WP:POLITICIAN (council leaders need significant coverage, and for some reason this council leader has very little coverage), there may be a place for mentioning his status as youngest council leader. There again, are any of these claims actually verified? Chris Neville-Smith (talk) 10:36, 3 January 2010 (UTC)
 * According to the references supplied, he's not a council leader, he's the chair of a council's fire and rescue authority, though one local paper cited has puffed this as "youngest local authority leader in the country". I've now clarified this in the intro. MuffledThud (talk) 15:36, 3 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Ah, that explains why there was so little coverage of him. Thanks for the clarification. Delete. Chris Neville-Smith (talk) 15:42, 3 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete -- Councillors are not notable per se. I doubt "youngest" is significant enough to make him notable.  Peterkingiron (talk) 22:26, 3 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete, fails the politician notability standards, and really no significant coverage to make him notable by the GNG. Nyttend (talk) 21:31, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
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