Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Julian Bell (politician)


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The result was delete. Kurykh (talk) 01:33, 23 May 2017 (UTC)

Julian Bell (politician)

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WP:BLP of a politician notable only for holding office on a borough council. This is not a level of office that confers an automatic WP:NPOL pass in and of itself: politicians at the borough level get Wikipedia articles only if they can be sourced over WP:GNG as significantly more notable than the norm for that level of office. But the sources here aren't showing that: two of the four are primary sources that cannot assist notability at all, one is the hyperlocal community news website of a network of neighbourhood weeklies that are not widely distributed enough to count as notability-building sources — and the only one that represents genuinely solid media coverage in a major media outlet just makes him a WP:BLP1E, because it's in the context of a single trivial controversy of no enduring significance, in what's recognized as one of the least reputable or trustworthy tabloid rags in the entire British media landscape. This is simply not enough to make a borough councillor notable just for being a borough councillor. Bearcat (talk) 16:09, 14 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete Nomination is well-argued, and I can't find more sources. He only got national press for his involvement in one trivial news story which is not itself notable (it was in one national newspaper but wasn't picked up by other media). Bell writes for one of the sources, getwestlondon so that can't be used to establish notability. He has been quoted in the national media but not in depth or at length. --Colapeninsula (talk) 09:39, 15 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 04:08, 21 May 2017 (UTC)
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 * Delete or redirect to Ealing London Borough Council; there's consensus that English councilmembers aren't inherently notable, and I don't see a WP:GNG case here. Power~enwiki (talk) 23:18, 21 May 2017 (UTC)


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