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The result was delete. —  JJMC89 ( T· C) 00:07, 14 July 2019 (UTC) reply

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BLP of a former president of a political party, not reliably sourced as notable. Being president of a political party's internal org chart, but not actually the party's electoral leader or a member of the legislature, is not an automatic notability freebie under WP:NPOL -- a person like this could clear the bar if he could be referenced well enough to clear WP:GNG, but is not automatically entitled to have a Wikipedia article just because he exists. But of the seven footnotes here, two are primary sources that do not constitute support for notability at all; four are glancing namechecks of his existence in coverage of other things or people, not coverage about him for the purposes of establishing his notability; and the last is completely tangential verification of a stray fact about somebody else entirely, which fails to even mention McCreadie's name at all. All of which means that none of these are notability-supporting sources about McCreadie, and nothing stated in the article is "inherently" notable enough to exempt him from having to have any notability-supporting sources. Bearcat ( talk) 17:27, 29 June 2019 (UTC) reply

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• Delete I don't see that being a party official is sufficient to meet any notability criteria. He's never held elected office and my search on his name didn't turn up the significant, independent coverage needed to meet WP:GNG. Papaursa ( talk) 21:10, 6 July 2019 (UTC) reply
• possible keep. It looks as though there is enough here to enable someone to build a solid article, a political inside baseball article. Also there is WP:RS coverage of his career as a attorney. Mostly, however, there are many sources along the lines of :

• profile article: Experienced leader, strong record: Hudak: [Final Edition]Tayti, Mark. Tribune; Welland, Ont. [Welland, Ont]17 Sep 2003: 3.
• Dedication will bring victory, Tory official says: [Final Edition], Aulakh, Raveena. The Record; Kitchener, Ont. [Kitchener, Ont]22 Feb 2008: B2: "McCreadie, who is to step down after five years as president of the party, was speaking at the Confederation Club's monthly speakers luncheon at the Delta Hotel. During three days of meetings, about 1,000 party delegates will review the Conservatives' last election campaign. They will also be asked to decide whether the party should have a leadership review. A leadership review would come on the heels of the party's resounding defeat in the Oct. 10 election."
• McGuinty wins with ease; Religious school funding issue sank Tory cause: [Final Edition] Edmonton Journal; Edmonton, Alta. [Edmonton, Alta]11 Oct 2007: A5. "Conservative party president Blair McCreadie refused to acknowledge the role that Tory's contentious plan played in the campaign, saying the free vote the leader opted for last week actually won the party back votes. "Anecdotally, we'd been hearing from our candidates that many of the core supporters that might have had a reluctance got over that and were coming back, dropping off cheques and taking lawn signs," said McCreadie, who did give credit to the Liberals' "very tightly scripted campaign." McCreadie also dodged questions about Tory's future,..." E.M.Gregory ( talk) 01:26, 8 July 2019 (UTC) reply

• Delete Doesn't receive the amount of significant coverage outside routine local press coverage to meet the WP:GNG requirements for politicians. Best, GPL93 ( talk) 13:06, 8 July 2019 (UTC) reply
• delete He didn't head the national party, only a provincial branch--and they lost a lot of seats during that time. He doesn't meet WP:NPOL. My search for coverage didn't find significant independent coverage of him. Mentions of him and his comments during press conferences are related solely to his position and are not enough to convince me he meets the GNG. Sandals1 ( talk) 23:40, 13 July 2019 (UTC) reply

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