Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tom Simpson (politician)


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The result was  d elete. - Mailer Diablo 03:48, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

Tom Simpson (politician)

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This article is about a local politician does not establish the notability of the person. There is only one citation referenced in the article and that is a university newspaper. Much of the text in the article is taken from the politician's campaign website. Please see the Politicians sub-section of WP:BIO. I have attempted to help the creator of the article establish the subjects notability as well as to confirm permission was given to use copywriter text from the campaign website. See User talk:Hobartcanuck. Patleahy 00:02, 21 May 2007 (UTC) All material that originated from any campaign page has been delteted. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 74.14.1.3 (talk • contribs).
 * Keep. It appears that the issue is that the primary editor of the article is having trouble understanding the difference between an encyclopedia and a campaign brochure. However, as a candidate for political office the article can stand, it just needs cleaning up. I suggest the nominator do it himself. --Crunch 01:38, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete as a candidate for an office is not yet notable based on that office, and the subject has little notability otherwise. (We are deleting candidates, this week, aren't we?) There is strong opposition in some quarters to making Wikipedia a generalized election guide per WP:NOT. --Dhartung | Talk 06:57, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete A candidate for electoral office is not notable for that alone and the subject of this article is not otherwise notable. It is important for the future of Wikipedia as a trusted independent source that Wikipedia avoid becoming part of election campaigns and vigilance is required against more sophisticated attempts than this. -- Mattinbgn/talk 11:21, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. Does not appear to meet WP:N or WP:BIO.  I agree with the above concerns, though I suspect we will have a hard time excluding candidate articles as they are likely to generate coverage in multiple sources.  However, this particular article does not have enough sources to demonstrate notability or to write a decent encyclopedic article.-- Kubigula (talk) 22:02, 25 May 2007 (UTC)


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