Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kimble Ainslie


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The result was delete. ✗ plicit  00:25, 6 June 2022 (UTC)

Kimble Ainslie

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Completely unreferenced WP:BLP of a pollster, political consultant and former leader of an unregistered fringe political party. To be fair, this was created at a time when "leader of a political party, regardless of its success or failure in politics" was accepted as the sort of "inherent" notability claim that required an article to be kept even if there were referencing problems -- but that's long since been deprecated, and leaders of minor or fringe parties are now accepted as notable only if they can be shown to clear WP:GNG on their sourceability. But even on a ProQuest search for older sourcing that wouldn't Google, I didn't find any significant coverage about him -- I'm finding raw tables of election results from when he ran for political office in 1995, glancing namechecks of his existence as a provider of soundbite, and/or op-ed pieces where he's the bylined author, and can find virtually no third-party coverage which has him as its subject apart from one very short article about his 2019 book, which isn't enough all by itself. Again, this was a good faith creation under the wikirules that applied as of 2005, but he doesn't pass WP:GNG for the purposes of meeting the wikirules that apply in 2022. Bearcat (talk) 14:17, 29 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Politicians and Canada. Bearcat (talk) 14:17, 29 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete Even in 2005 I don't think this was much for notability on wikipedia. Oaktree b (talk) 16:32, 29 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete The fact that this biographical article has lasted on Wikipedia for over 17 years with no sources is an indictment of how bad things are on Wikipedia. I just hope that we do not have any articles hit 20 years with no sources, I have already seen multiple ones that exceeded 19 years with no sources.John Pack Lambert (talk) 18:06, 31 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete - uncited WP:BLP; also violates WP:NOTRESUME and WP:TNT. What a wreck and a shame on us. Bearian (talk) 19:22, 2 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Amazing it lasted so long. SamWilson989  (talk) 21:59, 2 June 2022 (UTC)


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