Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ryan Watson (politician) (2nd nomination)


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The result was redirect to Green Party of Nova Scotia. Randykitty (talk) 16:49, 7 January 2020 (UTC)

Ryan Watson (politician)

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 * Does not meet WP:POLITICIAN.--NL19931993 (talk) 21:26, 30 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete provincial leaders of small parties are not default notable.John Pack Lambert (talk) 21:41, 30 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep as meeting WP:GNG based on the sources. No indication nom did a before on any of the Green Party leaders they AFD'd. ミラP 00:24, 31 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Either keep or redirect to Green Party of Nova Scotia. It's true that political party leaders are not handed an automatic free presumption of notability just because they exist — however, they must always still have either a biographical article or a redirect to the party's list of leaders. So they are kept if they clear GNG on the sourcing, and are redirected to the party's article if they don't, and may never just be deleted outright. Bearcat (talk) 04:04, 31 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Nova Scotia-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 15:13, 31 December 2019 (UTC)
 *  Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 15:13, 31 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 15:19, 31 December 2019 (UTC)


 * Redirect to Green Party of Nova Scotia, not notable on his own for small party. Reywas92Talk 17:59, 31 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep or redirect to Green Party of Nova Scotia Wm335td (talk) 20:21, 31 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete no coverage supporting notability of this leader of a provincial political party (in a very small province).NotButtigieg (talk) 07:47, 1 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Comment As a community, we've moved away from keeping state and provincial party leaders WP:POLOUTCOMES (see the AfD for Tom Morressey, who was chair of the Arizona Republican Party and related discussion on the Common Outcomes talk page). --Enos733 (talk) 05:36, 2 January 2020 (UTC)
 * It's true that we don't hand political party leaders an "inherent notability" freebie anymore if they aren't shown to pass GNG on the sourcing — but a party leader is still kept if he does clear GNG on the sourcing, and must be retained as a redirect to wherever we keep the list of the party leaders otherwise. Bearcat (talk) 18:41, 5 January 2020 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Delete. Provincial leaders of small political parties in small provinces are not notable by default. If he was an MLA, it would have been an entirely different story. Also, per Enos733, Wikipedia has been moving away from keeping provincial leaders or state chairs of political parties. Lefcentreright  Talk  (plz ping) 12:45, 2 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:OUTCOMES and WP:CCC. For at least the past 7 or 8 years, we've been moving away from automatic notability for minor parties in small jurisdictions. Bearian (talk) 17:02, 6 January 2020 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ritchie333 (talk) (cont)  16:47, 7 January 2020 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.