Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Stephen Benn


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The result was   delete. Spartaz Humbug! 08:26, 11 August 2009 (UTC)

Stephen Benn

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NO grounds for inclusion. Clearly a one sided and biased promotional article for the subject. one reference to the BBC website is no grounds for inclusion. Such drastic revision or deletion. Wiki is not an encyclopedia for every living person - see its criteria for whats notable! --WikiKing2012 (talk) 20:36, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of England-related deletion discussions.  -- - SpacemanSpiff Calvin&#8225;Hobbes 21:01, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment: this nomination was incomplete (missing steps 2 and 3). It is fixed now. Tim Song (talk) 21:02, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. Relationship to a notable person is not grounds for notability in itself, and without this, there's no real claim to notability. However, I'd consider a Merge of key points into Tony Benn. Chris Neville-Smith (talk) 21:08, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete - notability is not inherited, and none of his own is indicated. JohnCD (talk) 21:42, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
 * NOTE Nominator User:WikiKing2012 has been indef-blocked as a sockpuppet of User:BirminghamAV. See Sockpuppet investigations/BirminghamAV/Archive for details. MichaelQSchmidt (talk) 21:32, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment - the intemperate language of the nomination suggests that the nominator had an agenda, and I am not surprised to learn that s/he was a sock; but I still don't see independent notability, and my !vote stands. JohnCD (talk) 08:06, 6 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Myself wondered about that possible agenda. Did some research. Found the name "Stephen Benn" to be a common enough name to be in lots of news articles. Is it possible that a few of these are about this Stephen Benn? MichaelQSchmidt (talk) 21:32, 6 August 2009 (UTC)
 * I checked through them - nos. 1, 2, 5, 21, 22, 24, 26 are this Benn, but they are nearly all in connection with his father. I think the only possible independent one is #5, the Toronto Star, quoting him as a "long-time Labour insider", but it's pay-per-view, you don't actually see it, and anyway I don't think that's enough. JohnCD (talk) 21:44, 6 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions.  —MikeHobday (talk) 22:03, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete -- local concillors are usually NN. Heirs to peerages need to be notable for other reasons.  Father, brother and daughter are notable, but notability is not inherited.  Peterkingiron (talk) 21:42, 9 August 2009 (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.