Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Michael Shrimpton


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The result was   delete. SarahStierch (talk) 06:19, 17 August 2012 (UTC)

Michael Shrimpton

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Non-notable lawyer and minor judicial official - references do not support notability. Delete or reinstate the redirect to Mike Shrimpton. ukexpat (talk) 14:54, 10 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete; I agree with the nominator that there is nothing here that meets the notability guidelines. I'm not sure if WP:POLITICIAN indicates firmly that this should become a redirect to the specific election that he didn't win, but I thought it was worth mentioning.  Ubelowme U  Me  15:03, 10 August 2012 (UTC)
 * perhaps a disambig, with link to Mike the cricketer and and link to election.-- The Red Pen of Doom  15:06, 10 August 2012 (UTC)
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 * Delete - a fly-by unregistered IP seems to have dumped a curriculum vitae of this barrister. Possibly with his alleged successes as a student union president, legal expert, political activist and columnist in a minor magazine there may be sources out there to back it up, but I can't find much myself. The Independent Newspaper issued an apology to him, but I'm unable to find out whether there is significant coverage in the respectable newspapers. D minus for whoever wrote this article! Sionk (talk) 22:07, 10 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete -- If he had been President of the Immigration Appeals Tribunal, I would have voted otherwise, but I gain the impression that he is merely a person who sometimes sits as chairman. That is not sufficient to prevent his being NN.  Peterkingiron (talk) 17:27, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
 * delete fails WP:BIO. LibStar (talk) 05:06, 12 August 2012 (UTC)
 * delete with some regret, now that I've discovered he believes the German secret service counted among its assets UK prime ministers Lloyd George, Attlee, Macmillan, Wilson and Heath and is currently shipping cocaine, nuclear bombs and kidnapped children in refitted U-boats - but sadly though he's quite outspoken about it (and much more), reliable secondary sources rarely mention him. As for a disambig to the election results, we don't usually provide these for minor losing candidates in UK parliamentary elections. There'd be an awful lot of them. NebY (talk) 20:53, 12 August 2012 (UTC)
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