Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of celebrities with links to the Conservative Party of Canada


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The result was delete. Can&#39;t sleep, clown will eat me 18:53, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

List of celebrities with links to the Conservative Party of Canada and three other parties
I am nominating List of celebrities with links to the Conservative Party of Canada along with the following related pages for the same reason: These are unencyclopedic lists with little objective criteria. Who is a “celebrity” and what constitutes a “link” is largely subjective and gives rise to a serious POV problem. While some “celebrities” may be easily “linked” to a party (i.e. performed a benefit concert), there are serious problems verifying who ought to be on this list, short of checking their wallets for party membership cards or spying on them in the ballot booth. More or less listcruft. Agent 86 17:08, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
 * List of celebrities with links to the Liberal Party in Canada
 * List of celebrities with links to the New Democratic Party of Canada
 * List of celebrities with links to the Green Party of Canada
 * Delete per nom. --Usgnus 17:26, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep, they all seem to be valid. Ardenn  17:38, 19 July 2006 (UTC) Change vote to delete  Ardenn  01:24, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete They just seem to be there for no reason. And, as said can't be verified. And it just seems to be almost propaganda ("Hey, look who suports this party!") -Royalguard11Talk 17:56, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete "links" invites abuse Tom Harrison Talk 18:12, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete WP is NOT an indiscriminate collection of information. Could also qualify as Original Research. Resolute 18:22, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete as per nom. Difficult to verify and determining who is (or isn't) a celebrity is subjective. This is unencyclopedic. Also note: List of celebrities with links to the U.S. Democratic Party and List of celebrities with links to the U.S. Republican Party. Lists of this type all suffer the same problems and should be treated equally. Scorpiondollprincess 19:17, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Nominated here. Ardenn  19:24, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Good idea to nominate them. If I had known about them, I'd have included them. What confuses me is that you've pretty much cut-and-pasted the reasoning I've used for this AfD into the new nomination, but have commented "Keep" in relation to this one. Is the other nomination simply a technical nomination? Agent 86 19:51, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Yes. I honestly think that the lists should stay. I think they're pretty notable, and have valuble information. Ardenn  19:52, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete Pointless, and some of the entries are wrong.  CJCurrie 21:11, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. --NeoChaosX 21:44, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. 23skidoo 22:47, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom and reasons given in other such lists' AfDs. -- H·G (words/works) 23:58, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
 * This is kind of OR and subjective, isn't it? Let's see: Sarah Harmer and David Suzuki are on both the NDP and Green lists. Some of the people listed have been successful or unsuccessful electoral candidates for the parties in question, which is just redundant with other articles we already have. Although she's widely perceived as a Dipper, I've seen television interviews with Margaret Atwood in which she's defined her own politics as Red Tory — although it obviously doesn't follow that this would make her a Conservative now, there most certainly isn't any strong "public record" of her being a primarily NDP-associated figure. Meanwhile, other figures with Red Tory links, such as Leslie Nielsen, are assumed to support the Conservatives on the basis of having been PC supporters 20 years ago. Other people, e.g. Jim Cuddy, are assumed into lists based on family connections, despite there being virtually no record of whether Cuddy shares his brother's political views or not. Frankly, it's an unencyclopedic mess that's delete-worthy, IMO. Bearcat 01:22, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per the American articles. Danny Lilithborne 01:32, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per all above and same reasons as in the equivalent US articles. Paddles TC 14:21, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. For reasons mentioned above, and because the title refers to "Conservative Party of Canada" but many of the "sources" in the article refer to provincial PC parties. --Skeezix1000 19:37, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete all per above. Bucketsofg✐ 20:33, 20 July 2006 (UTC)


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