Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John J. Sullivan (Canadian lawyer)


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The result was delete. Tone 20:12, 18 June 2019 (UTC)

John J. Sullivan (Canadian lawyer)

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Biography of a person notable primarily as a non-winning candidate for the leadership of a political party. This is not an WP:NPOL clinch, however; people who have been in that situation qualify for Wikipedia articles only if they can demonstrate preexisting notability for other reasons besides having been an unsuccessful leadership candidate, such as having been an actual member of the party's caucus in the legislature and/or having already had preexisting notability for other reasons before they ran for leader. But the only other potential notability claim here, the Evelyn Dick murder trial, is not referenced to any evidence of media coverage about Sullivan in that context, and I can't find any elsewhere, either: even on a deep ProQuest search for pregooglable coverage, all I'm getting is glancing namechecks of his existence in coverage of Dick, not coverage that is substantively about Sullivan for the purposes of getting him over GNG as an individual. Bearcat (talk) 14:59, 11 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 14:59, 11 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 14:59, 11 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Law-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 18:16, 11 June 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete total lack of adequate sourcing.John Pack Lambert (talk) 03:39, 12 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Ontario_Liberal_Party_leadership_elections not enough sourcing or notability to warrant a full article. Bkissin (talk) 20:50, 17 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete-lack of sourcing, notability not established.--Rusf10 (talk) 02:53, 18 June 2019 (UTC)


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