Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Marian Petre Milut

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Marian Petre Milut
Vanity. Ran for public office in Romania and won 0.4% of the vote. GRider\talk 00:35, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, under the bar of notability, possible vanity. Megan1967 05:33, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Wile E. Heresiarch 05:36, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. He was the presidential candidate of Ac&#355;iunea Popular&#259;, a party founded by modern Romania's one right-wing president, Emil Constantinescu. The very fact of his almost complete lack of electoral success as the candidate of this party presumably should make an interesting story. This is sort of like keeping someone because they were the Communist Party USA presidential candidate, which we certainly do. -- Jmabel | Talk 20:58, Feb 16, 2005 (UTC)
 * Disagree. Delete. In many countries it is easy to start a political party with little or no support, agenda or competence (ref: last Dutch elections had half a dozen new splinter factions). These are not of themselves notable. Radiant! 09:17, Feb 17, 2005 (UTC)
 * In Romania, order to be accepted on the ballot, presidency candidates have to provide 200,000 signatures of support. Also, in order to register a party, you have to have offices in over half of the 40 Romanian counties. (these rules were made after in the early 90s, the ballot used to be a small booklet :-) Bogdan | Talk 09:40, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. He got 43 000 votes. In California, Georgina Russell got only 2 000 (out of 8 million) votes and yet we have an article about her. Bogdan | Talk 09:29, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Thank you for bringing her to my attention. I had not made it over to the G ' s quite yet.  GRider\talk 17:12, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. The fact that he got 0.4% of the vote does not make it 'vanity'. IulianU 15:46, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep - passes the Pokemon Comparative Notability Test - David Gerard 15:03, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Hard to see how this qualifies as "vanity", unless we have Romanian Presidential candidates or their supporters attempting to subvert Wikipedia. Lacrimosus 22:24, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, not particularly notable. JamesBurns 06:21, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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