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Non notable candidate for 2015 UK general election.
Davidtrusting (
talk) 01:06, 24 September 2014 (UTC)reply
Delete Fails
WP:POLITICIAN as an unelected candidate. If she is elected to Parliament, that is the time for an article about her.
Cullen328Let's discuss it 01:25, 24 September 2014 (UTC)reply
Keep. Subject meet
WP:GNG and obviously meet
WP:BASIC. It also satisfy
WP:POLITICIAN#2. I think she is notable enough. Not all politician must be elected.
Wikicology (
talk) 16:23, 24 September 2014 (UTC)reply
It's certainly within the realm of possibility that she does satisfy NPOL #2, but this article as written and sourced fails to demonstrate that. You're correct that it is possible for an unelected political candidate to get over the notability bar, but they do have to be elected to attain an automatic presumption of notability. Absent that, you have to write and source the article well enough to get them past
WP:GNG, which this article as written doesn't even approach — it takes a lot more than four citations of purely
WP:ROUTINE campaign coverage to get there.
Bearcat (
talk) 22:12, 26 September 2014 (UTC)reply
Delete In the run up to a general election, these sort of articles are created all the time (I remember it well from 2008 until 2010). She is not yet a notable politician. If/When she is elected, the article can be re-created
doktorbwordsdeeds 15:10, 26 September 2014 (UTC)reply
Delete. This, as written, is little more than a campaign brochure for a person whose only substantive claim of notability is being an unelected candidate in a future election. I'm not familiar enough with local politics in Bristol to assess the accuracy of Wikicology's claim above that she passes NPOL #2, but the article fails to credibly demonstrate or source that — apart from her candidacy itself, all we've got here is that she was formerly a constituency assistant to another MP (which doesn't make her notable). No prejudice against recreation in 2015 if she wins the election, but she's not entitled to keep an
advert on Wikipedia in the meantime. Delete.
Bearcat (
talk) 22:12, 26 September 2014 (UTC)reply
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