Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Marcel Hatch


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The result was delete. Lankiveil (speak to me) 00:46, 12 April 2018 (UTC)

Marcel Hatch

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Poorly referenced WP:BLP of a person notable only as an unsuccessful candidate in a political party leadership election. This is not a claim of notability that gives a person an automatic free pass over WP:NPOL -- if a person doesn't already have preexisting notability for other reasons, then they have to win the leadership, not just run in the convention and lose, to be deemed notable as a politician. But this is referenced almost entirely to primary sources (a piece of his own writing about something else, and the self-published websites of directly affiliated organizations), and the only exception is an opinion column about something else which merely happens to briefly glance on Hatch's existence as a digression from the main topic, not a source about Hatch. Which means that none of these sources count as evidence of notability at all. Bearcat (talk) 22:58, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 22:58, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 22:58, 28 March 2018 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Merge/Redirect with New Democratic Party Socialist Caucus as Hatch was that faction's candidate in the 2001 challenge to Alexa McDonough's leadership and he is mentioned in that article. Nixon Now (talk) 01:20, 29 March 2018 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 00:29, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete for lacking independent notability. Where is the WP:GNG? I checked all over the house. At best, have it as a redirect to the NDP caucus article. -The Gnome (talk) 13:00, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete per above but no problem with the merge proposal also mentioned above. SportingFlyer  talk  06:16, 9 April 2018 (UTC)


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