Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mike Murray (politician)


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The result was delete. MelanieN (talk) 00:33, 4 March 2017 (UTC)

Mike Murray (politician)

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Delete. WP:BLP of a person notable primarily as a constituency assistant to a Canadian MP, and as a non-winning candidate for a House of Commons seat in his own right. Neither of these is a claim that passes WP:NPOL -- a person does not get an article just for being a candidate in an election he didn't win, and political staffers do not get articles just for being staffers. The referencing here is a mix of primary sources and routine local coverage of the type that any candidate in any election would be expected to generate in their own local media, with no evidence shown that he clears the "more notable than the norm" bar for any reason. (And don't be fooled by the one citation to Bloomberg, either -- it's here to support the date on which Stephen Harper dropped the writ, but contains no content whatsoever about Murray, not even a glancing mention of his name.) Furthermore there's a direct conflict of interest here, as the article was created by "MurrayforPMMR" (the riding Murray ran in having been "Pitt Meadows--Maple Ridge", or "PMMR".) Bearcat (talk) 23:31, 24 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 23:31, 24 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of British Columbia-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 23:31, 24 February 2017 (UTC)


 * Delete I'd tagged it with COI on NPP and was waiting to see if someone with more knowledge of failed candidates in the last election to see if he actually had done something notable. I'm convinced by Bearcat's analysis. The trick with Bloomberg is at least creative though. TonyBallioni (talk) 23:40, 24 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom/Bearcat. -- WV ● ✉ ✓ 03:22, 25 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete political candidates at this level are not notable.John Pack Lambert (talk) 20:37, 25 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete - Fails WP:POLITICIAN as having held no elected post at a state-wide or province-wide level or higher and also fails WP:GNG. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 14:10, 26 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete - Fails WP:GNG and WP:POLITICIAN. CAPTAIN RAJU  (✉)   20:28, 3 March 2017 (UTC)


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