Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Scott Aitchison


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The result was delete. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 19:43, 18 June 2019 (UTC)

Scott Aitchison

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Semi-advertorialized WP:BLP of a person notable only as a smalltown mayor and as yet non-winning candidate in a future election. As always, neither of these are reasons why a person gets an article under WP:NPOL: deriving notability from the federal election requires winning it, not just being a candidate, and a place has to be much larger than Huntsville (pop. 19K) before a mayor is presumed notable in the absence of much more reliable source coverage than this article shows. Of the three footnotes here, however, two are primary sources self-published by the city government, which are not notability-supporting sources -- the only one that's media coverage is from a community hyperlocal, and is merely a short blurb verifying that he won the mayoral election in 2014, which is not substantive or wide enough coverage to make a smalltown mayor permanently notable all by itself. As always, no prejudice against recreation on or after October 20 if he wins the federal election -- but Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a database of campaign brochures for aspiring MPs, and nothing here is valid grounds for him to already have an article today. Bearcat (talk) 19:11, 11 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 19:11, 11 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Ontario-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 19:11, 11 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete Not notable enough and even comes from a small town. Can be recreated if he wins the fall federal election. Kevinhanit (talk) 00:07, 13 June 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete Non-notable mayor and future federal candidate do not meet WP:NPOL. Use of Wikipedia as free election advertising would violate WP:PROMO. If and when he wins we can re-create. Bkissin (talk) 20:35, 17 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete Per the nom. Fails WP:NPOL and WP:PROMO. Newshunter12 (talk) 06:25, 18 June 2019 (UTC)


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