Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Roberts Putnis


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The result was delete.  Sandstein  07:39, 16 October 2018 (UTC)

Roberts Putnis

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Leader of a minor and unsuccessful political party (they got 2.6% in last weekend's general election, winning no seats.) No other claims to notability and I've had a look at the equivalent Latvian wiki article and online and can't find any useful sources that cover him apart from that. Per WP:POLOUTCOMES and WP:POLITICIAN such articles usually don't stay around. Valenciano (talk) 21:11, 8 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 23:31, 8 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Latvia-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 23:31, 8 October 2018 (UTC)


 * Delete fails WP:NPOL. SportingFlyer  talk  10:09, 12 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep if somebody can find and add some additional sourcing; delete if they can't. To be fair, notability as a political party leader does not actually depend on the party's degree of success or failure in politics — it depends solely on whether there's a GNG-worthy volume of coverage in the role of party leader or not. I can't read Latvian, so I can't assess whether Putnis has enough coverage to get over the bar or not, but it's a question of coverage, not of how many seats they did or didn't win. Plus the English-language source which I could read calls him "one of the country's few openly gay politicians" — which is also obviously not a notability clincher on its own for a person who's sourced only to two short blurbs, but it strongly hints at the possibility that there's more coverage, and maybe even a much stronger notability claim, to be found. Bearcat (talk) 07:38, 14 October 2018 (UTC)
 * I do read Latvian and I couldn't find anything that covered him in significant detail outside his role as party leader, most of it was quoting him in that capacity in the context of an election campaign. Regarding the gay angle, I think that sentence makes that aspect sound more important than it is. We are (fortunately) at the point where being gay is rarely comment-worthy in most EU countries. Two openly gay politicians, Marija Golubeva and Edgars Rinkēvičs, were among the 100 elected to the Latvian parliament last week. The latter is the incumbent foreign minister, so that aspect is not as noteworthy as the article implies. Valenciano (talk) 10:38, 14 October 2018 (UTC)


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