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Despite a hint of notability, the award of Honorary Life Membership in the College of Family Medicine does not appear to be, of itself, something that confers notability. The references are insufficient to assert notability and to verify it. If he can be shown to be notable and that notability added to the article, great. If not then he does not merit an article here.
FiddleFaddle 17:06, 26 September 2014 (UTC)reply
Keep and improve the references. As Timtrent noted, the dearth of references don't clearly establish notability via
WP:GNG. However,
WP:POLITICIAN says that persons elected to sub-national bodies are notable. Thus, his service as an MLA makes him a notable person. I think the best course for this article right now is to improve the sourcing. —C.Fred (
talk) 17:27, 26 September 2014 (UTC)reply
Keep per
WP:POLITICIAN as he served in the Nova Scotia Legislature (which was the primary reason I created the article).
Connormah (
talk) 18:08, 26 September 2014 (UTC)reply
Keep. Members of provincial Canadian legislatures are automtically notable, just as state legislators in the United States are. -
LtNOWIS (
talk)
Keep Served in a legislature, therefore automatically passes
WP:POLITICIAN. Can we
WP:SNOW this now?
Tiller54 (
talk) 00:23, 28 September 2014 (UTC)reply
Sourcing improvements are certainly needed, so by all means the article should be tagged for {{refimprove}}, but duly serving members of a provincial legislature in Canada are always notable per
WP:NPOL #1 — we do not have additional standards to distinguish MLAs into "notable" and "non-notable" camps, but rather if they served at all then they're automatically includable with no exceptions. Keep.
Bearcat (
talk) 20:33, 29 September 2014 (UTC)reply
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