Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John Cooper (Politician)


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The result was   delete. Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:52, 12 March 2012 (UTC)

John Cooper (Politician)

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Unreferenced WP:BLP of an individual who appears to have no notability. Possibly an attack page, as I cannot attribute any of the quotes. Kinu t/c 13:55, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Speedy Delete after trimming unsourced personal information and unsourced critical information (in line with Biographies of living persons) there is hardly anything left. I believe this was an attack page, the give away being speculation about joining the BNP. I find no matches in GBooks or GNews archives. --Fæ (talk) 15:06, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete It is difficult to know where to begin with this very strange article. I am inclined to say 'made up'. In the (correctly) deleted section it is said that he was an astrophysicist, and there is a John Cooper who is a Professor of Quantum Matter at Cambridge (but not the same person). It is said (in passing) that he became a full time M of parliament and a representative for Shropshire but he cannot be either of the two MPs of that name, both of whom served before he was born and neither for Shropshire. There is a passing reference to his radio show and there is a John Cooper currently who is a radio presenter (again, not the same person). So not only is the article unsourced and conflicts with BLP policy, it seems unverifiable and no true notability emerges once the questionable claims are excluded. --AJHingston (talk) 16:05, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete. Apparently an attack page on someone who, if he exists, has not had the career that this article said he had. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 16:53, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete as an unsourced BLP. Carrite (talk) 05:56, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions.  • Gene93k (talk) 18:36, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.