The result was keep. joe decker talk to me 22:42, 19 March 2012 (UTC) reply
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Unknown to the French general public as a politician and as a civil servant. Please take note that his article has been deleted several times at the French wikipedia and is very likely to be deleted again. Take note that one of his few claims to fame is that he can't manage to have an article at the French wikipedia. This article mentions it and calls him a "totally unknown" politician. Jean-Jacques Georges ( talk) 14:49, 12 March 2012 (UTC) reply
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Asselineau is an anti-european and a right-winger, and I don't approve of his politics in the least. But I can't condone this nomination. Let's just say that I'm somewhat suspicious about the reasons for wanting to delete his article during what is after all an election campaign.— S Marshall T/ C 22:50, 12 March 2012 (UTC) reply
Beyond anything else, given Nyttend's cogent point that the subject's position as a Parisian city councillor is normally the sort cited as a pass on WP:POLITICIAN, the Council of Paris is the legislative body for the department of Paris, giving Asselineau a clear pass on criterion #1 as a provincial legislator. Ravenswing 19:53, 12 March 2012 (UTC) reply
Would these qualify under the guidelines in place on the French Wikipedia? I would not for an instant dream of surfing on over, having no experience with the same, and telling the editors there how their notability guidelines work. I think we should expect the same courtesy in return. Ravenswing 00:32, 13 March 2012 (UTC) reply
Deuxtroy says it well on fr.wiki here. En.wiki has an article about this French politician. An election in France, involving the article subject, gets under way and a user chooses this moment to start the fourth AfD in less than a year about the same person despite the fact that the previous discussions all led to "keep" outcomes... what are we supposed to think?— S Marshall T/ C 23:12, 12 March 2012 (UTC) reply
Strange though it might sound, there are actually editors on the English Wikipedia who gauge articles based on black-letter policies and guidelines, and who make their opinions known for no other motive than to build this encyclopedia. Some of them might actually be participating in this AfD. Go figure. Ravenswing 00:46, 13 March 2012 (UTC) reply
Another is this issue. It is painfully obvious that the language of criteria #1 refers to second-level subnational entities generally, since of course many countries don't use the English words "state" or "province" to designate them. As such, comments along the lines of how many French subnational entities have the word "Province" in their names are innately WP:CIVIL violations. That Paris is legally a "department," and that "department" is the word used in France for second-level subnational entities, is not in question. (I hope.)
A third is the propensity of our visitors to put words in people's mouths. I most certainly did not "concede" (or state, or infer, or anything else along those lines) that my "major rationale" for my Keep vote was WP:POLITICIAN. It is that the subject satisfies the GNG. I stated that explicitly, I've stated that more than once, and I am at a complete loss to understand how anyone could fail to recognize that, short of deliberate rhetoric-chopping. Ravenswing 17:04, 13 March 2012 (UTC) reply
What IS false is your assertion that anyone has claimed that the French admins should be debarred from this discussion. Wrong: what people have asserted is that they should discuss this subject solely with respect to whether or not he meets the standards of this Wikipedia, and that especially the suggestion as to whether anyone on fr.wikipedia finds the existence of this article inconvenient to their purposes should never have been raised here. Ravenswing 09:09, 17 March 2012 (UTC) reply