Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jim McMillan (politician)


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The result was delete. sufficient consensus. Even in 2005, I don't think we kept candidates as minor as this.  DGG ( talk ) 23:29, 12 June 2016 (UTC)

Jim McMillan (politician)

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WP:BLP of a person notable only as a non-winning candidate for office. This is a holdover from 2005, when our notability standards for politicians were very different than they are now -- but the strongest thing here is that he was arrested for causing a minor disturbance during one of his election campaigns, and under the standards that apply today, that no longer constitutes a substantive reason why he would warrant permanent coverage in an international encyclopedia. Delete. Bearcat (talk) 06:44, 5 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 04:00, 6 June 2016 (UTC)
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 * Delete unelected politicians are not notable for such.John Pack Lambert (talk) 14:40, 6 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete as I examined the article but found nothing particularly better, there's nothing for the applicable notability and there's then nothing else particularly better convincing. SwisterTwister   talk  01:02, 9 June 2016 (UTC)


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