Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Richard Butler (British politician)


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The result was delete. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 09:32, 6 November 2016 (UTC)

Richard Butler (British politician)

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Delete. WP:BLP, with campaign brochure overtones and poorly sourced, of a local politician. As always, Wikipedia does not grant an automatic notability freebie to the mayors of English civil parishes, where the mayoralty is a purely ceremonial position that rotates annually so that everybody on council gets a turn -- in England, mayoralty only equals an automatic presumption of notability in cities where the position is directly elected, and otherwise it's pass WP:GNG or bust. But for sourcing, what we have here is his profile on the council's own website, a single article about his swearing-in as ceremonial mayor, and a "why you should vote for me" essay written by him in the local newspaper when he ran for election to Parliament -- but he lost that election, and non-winning candidates for Parliament don't get automatic inclusion freebies either. And both the council website and the self-penned campaign essay are primary sources that cannot assist a notability case, leaving us with just the swearing-in article for reliable sourcing — but one reliable source does not constitute a GNG pass. Nothing here is substantive enough ("campaigning on issues around parakeets"?), or sourced well enough, to make him more notable than the norm for a ceremonial non-executive mayor or an unelected parliamentary candidate. Bearcat (talk) 23:39, 29 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Non-notable local politician. Bearcat has it absolutely right about non-directly-elected mayors, unless they've made their own mark in some other way. (That's my English POV.) See Buggins' turn. Narky Blert (talk) 00:25, 30 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete Not notable in line with WP:BIO - "Just being an elected local official, or an unelected candidate for political office, does not guarantee notability"
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 01:29, 30 October 2016 (UTC)


 * Delete Fails WP:POLITICIAN. Cullen328  Let's discuss it  03:38, 30 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete Fails WP:POLITICIAN and no evidence of a WP:GNG pass. Thanks, JohnTombs48 (talk) 12:48, 30 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete At the risk of repetition, fails WP:POLITICIAN and WP:GNG. Paste  Let’s have a chat. 16:02, 1 November 2016 (UTC)


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