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Did you know... that in 2010, New Zealand Prime Minister
John Key said that 21-year-old Student Volunteer Army organiser Sam Johnson "might be Prime Minister one day"?
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The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.
Sam Johnson (New Zealand) →
Sam Johnson (activist) – The current dab 'New Zealand' is not a good descriptor. As per
Wikipedia:NCPDAB, the "disambiguator is usually a noun indicating what the person is noted for being." Well, Johnson is not a New Zealand. It's not clear cut whether he would best be described as a politician (he's a community board member) or a community activist, or simply activist, hence this formal move request. Schwede6619:11, 26 April 2013 (UTC)reply
Support per nom. Not a New Zealand. However, I'm dubious as to whether this individual is notable enough for an article anyway. Looks a bit like fancruft to me. --
Necrothesp (
talk)
13:46, 29 April 2013 (UTC)reply
Don't worry about notability. He's an absolute household name in New Zealand, which for a 24-year-old politician is rather unusual. The other day, he (as a right winger) was asked by a senior left wing MP to be her running mate for the
Christchurch mayoralty. He would have been a shoe-in; people and the media were rather disappointed when he declined to stand (has to finish his tertiary education). There wouldn't be that much fuss about somebody who isn't notable. Schwede6618:23, 29 April 2013 (UTC)reply
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.