Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Joe Anderson (politician)


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The result was   delete. JohnCD (talk) 22:57, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

Joe Anderson (politician)

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Nothing in this article supports the subject's notability, speedy declined and prod contested. Referencing consists of a link to the official council website contact details. I have only been able to find some statements of his in the local press, recycled from press releases. Subject is current leader of the Labour opposition on the council and I believe that subject fails WP:POLITICIAN as not having "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject of the article." Jezhotwells (talk) 19:16, 12 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of England-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 22:51, 12 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 22:51, 12 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep as one of those rare exceptions for local politicians. He is the opposition leader in a major metropolitan council, and the coverage (which I am progressively adding to the article) is sufficient to meet WP:BIO. --Mkativerata (talk) 23:01, 12 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete unless much more notability can be proved. We have articles on elected mayors, but I do not think we normally do on the leaders of councils, let alone the leaders of the opposition there, even for cities the size of Liverpool.  Peterkingiron (talk) 23:57, 12 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Weak Delete and Redirect. The critical piece of policy is "Major local political figures who have received significant press coverage.[7] Generally speaking, mayors are likely to meet this criterion, as are members of the main citywide government or council of a major metropolitan city." This means leader of the opposition of the council does not automatically confer notability, but media coverage might. Looking through GNews and the references in the article, there's plenty of mentions of him, but mainly in articles in local papers about something else. Very few articles actually where he is the subject. My opinion is that it's good, but not good enough, but I'm open to what other people think. Chris Neville-Smith (talk) 09:07, 13 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete - Articles subjects only claim to notability is as a politician and fails the criteria set out in WP:POLITICIAN by a large margin. Even if he were to become leader of the city council he would still fail to meet the criteria. -  Gallo glass  10:32, 16 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Delete - fails WP:POLITICIAN. ukexpat (talk) 19:17, 16 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete. Fails WP:POLITICIAN. - Kittybrewster   &#9742;  17:37, 19 March 2010 (UTC)
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