Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tom Weiss


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.  

The result was delete. Mailer Diablo 11:46, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Tom Weiss
Non-notable and autobiographic (TV Genius is Tom Weiss). Delete per WP:BIO. Haakon 04:01, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete, local politicians and government figures aren't usually considered notable unless other accomplishments make them so, and that doesn't seem to apply here. -- H·G (words/works) 04:37, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per HG and suspected v --Firi e n § 10:56, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete, per nom. SmartGuy 13:58, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep I am not Tom Weiss (who has never lived in Devon), and to state such a falsehood is a libellous smear . Local councillors are considered notable, eg David Boothroyd, Darren Hayday. TV Genius 14:01, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
 * I am sorry if you are in fact not Weiss. It seemed an easy conclusion to make because your contributions are mainly about him and your username is the name of the company he founded. I still question his notability. Haakon 14:35, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete non-notable. Boothroyd and (less so) Hayday have other claims to notability. Mtiedemann 14:22, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Boothroyd and Hayday have less claims to notability, no books published etc. If this sets a precedent for deleting local councillors it clearly wont be the last afd. TV Genius 14:57, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment There already are precedents - see Ben Abbotts (Bromley cllr who ran the Tories close in Bromley & Chislehurst), and currently Sandy Keith and Angela Constance (also by-election candidates) where their political activity was more notable. Ditto Antonia Bance. Mia Jones (Chester) was speedily deleted despite having been an article for a year by an admin for only being a councillor and parliamentary candidate. There is indeed a whole stack of councillors from e.g. Liverpool, Manchester, Brentwood and Colchester for whom there is little to say and AfD processes are overdue. Councillor-only articles have to show a greater level of notability such as council leadership (e.g. Steve Reed), leadership of a national or regional body (e.g. Jeremy Beecham, Sally Powell, Robin Wales) or being the "first, last, best or worst" (e.g. John Archer, Edgar Griffin, Margot James). This is not Policy, but I guess I am trying to make sense of the precedents that have already been set. Mtiedemann 15:29, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete as per nom and deletion of other mere candidates and councillors. Timrollpickering 16:31, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete as non-notable. Being a local councillors is not, by itself, notable. TedTalk/Contributions 05:43, 23 July 2006 (UTC)


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