Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lenore Swystun


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.  

The result was Speedy G12 (copyvio) by Uncle G. Tevildo 04:47, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
 * (After edit conflict with the above:) I deleted the article because it violated the copyright of a copyrighted ("Copyright 2006 © | Authorized by the Lenore Swystun Mayoral Campaign") non-GFDL web page, and there was no non-infringing version to revert to. I was going to leave the discussion open with the suggestion that it be discussed whether sources such as, , and  satisfy the WP:BIO criteria. Uncle G 04:56, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

Lenore Swystun

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Fails to meet WP:BIO. Non-notable. Delete GreenJoe 03:12, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep - meets WP:BIO: "Major local political figures who receive (or received) significant press coverage. Just being an elected local official does not guarantee notability." As second place candidate in mayoral race, received a lto of local press coverage. Also served as an elected coucnillor. Article needs a major clean-up, though. Ground Zero | t 03:22, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
 * I can't say I buy the idea that a second-place mayoral candidate is notable enough for an article just because she was a candidate. As far as I'm concerned, at the level of municipal politics we generally need a person's notability to extend demonstrably beyond the boundaries of the city itself; we need to be able to show that people who don't even live in the same province are reasonably likely to have heard of the person: either because they're on the council of a major metropolis with a high international profile, or because they've gotten national media coverage for one reason or another. Dar Heatherington, for example, merits an article, but that's because of the international press coverage she got when she claimed to have been abducted, not because she was a city councillor. Ike Awgu merits an article because he hosted a program on a national cable network, not because he unsuccessfully ran for mayor of Ottawa. So unless somebody can demonstrate a better claim to notability than "she ran for mayor and lost", delete. Bearcat 03:52, 31 December 2006 (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.