Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Steve Comer


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The result was Keep. NawlinWiki 15:00, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

Steve Comer

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Unsourced article that doesn't demonstrate any inherent notability. Local political leaders are not notable in themselves unless they have done something noteworthy. This doesn't appear to have been the case here. Its hard to see how we can verify any of the biographical information without multiple independent sources. Spartaz Humbug! 18:31, 7 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep As leader of the largest group on one of the larger councils in England he is much more notable than the usual local politician. The multiple BBC articles  and Guardian article  in which he is quoted further establish his notability. Davewild 21:03, 7 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Multiple sources really need to be about the subject. The only real reported fact about this person is that they are leader of the lib-dem group on the council and that they were unsuccessful in getting him elected to lead the council. That doesn't make a biography. Spartaz Humbug! 22:04, 7 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Weak Delete unless non-trivial sources specifically about the individual and not merely mentioning him are added. -- Charlene 22:09, 7 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep We seem to have decided recently that city councillors of large cities were intrinsically notable--because they would get national coverage in media sources, and so he has. DGG (talk) 01:05, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Is there a diff for that? Spartaz Humbug! 11:45, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep, as per Davewild reasons. Callelinea 17:23, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep I'm very surprised to see this marked for deletion. I'm even more surprised to see the reason "Local political leaders are not notable in themselves", which is a bizarre thing to say. Is the suggestion that local things are not notable - which is very much against the spirit of wikipedia; or that only local politicians are not notable, which seems a strange singling out of politicians as irrelevent over other thing local. Bristol City Council is one of the largest councils in the UK, and Cllr Comer is the leader of the largest group on that council (and would expect to be leader of Council, but for the rather bizarre politics going on in Bristol at the moment (Lab-Con alliance)). The article has now been sourced and is concise and factual. Deletion would be unhelpful to the Bristol project, and unjustified. Fig 17:36, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep - Even as just a council member in a city the size of Bristol would make this person notable, but this is a major party leader on it no less. The nom's "Local political leaders are not notable in themselves..." is purley personal opinion and not based on policy nor guideline. --Oakshade 03:28, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
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