Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alan de Jardin (2nd nomination)

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The result was delete. Redirects at editoral control, of course. Courcelles (talk) 03:49, 8 June 2010 (UTC)

Alan de Jardin

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I've been trying to source unreferenced Canadian BLPs, and cannot find any reliable sources about this man who made a brief foray into Canadian provincial politics in 1984. Neither could this editor, it appears. There was a previous AFD (then VFD) in 2005, which is to be found on the talkpage and which makes for interesting reading; it appears the criteria for establishing notability have changed a lot in the last 5 years. But given our current guidelines, and the requirement that BLP articles be sourced, this one now doesn't make the grade. Slp1 (talk) 23:57, 1 June 2010 (UTC)

• Delete If unelected to public office and in the absence of any press coverage that has been found (I found none), my feelings would be that the article fails: WP:POLITICIAN. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wintonian (talk • contribs)
  • Redirect as per Whpq, seems pretty obvious now that I know the article exists. --Wintonian (talk) 00:51, 3 June 2010 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 12:40, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
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• Delete - fails WP:POLITICIAN, WP:GNG, no sources.--137.122.49.102 (talk) 14:19, 2 June 2010 (UTC)

• Merge the material about his run for the 1984 leadership to Manitoba Liberal Party#The 1980s. The Manitoba Liberal Party isn't some fringe party; it's one of the major political parties in Manitoba porvincial politics. A leadership race would have created some coverage, which would support expanding this material in the Manitoba Liberal Party, but I suspect that being 1984, those materials are not available online. -- Whpq (talk) 14:22, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
  • Redirect to Manitoba Liberal Party leadership elections#1984 leadership convention results. Very little coverage. Found this. It's conceivably a search term and pointing a readr to the election results at leat provides them with a modicum of information related to him. -- Whpq (talk) 21:16, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
• Delete - Old VFD is interesting reading. Basically, they didn't agree that notability mattered. Now that we've defined both notability and verifiability, we go with that. Nothing verifiable in this article = delete, not merge (nothing sourced = nothing to keep). No notability as we define it. While candidate may have been notable to the Party at the time, it doesn't seem that narrow notability resulted in any coverage. - SummerPhD (talk) 16:18, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
• Delete per Summer PhD. consensus has changed dramatically since 2005, namely we now require notability. Also, WP:POLITICIAN has emerged as the litmus test, pardon the pun. deJardin fails the tests. Bearian (talk) 20:34, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
• Delete If notability is solely that he got 21 votes in a leadership contest, that information is already part of the list of party leadership election results. Canuckle (talk) 03:18, 3 June 2010 (UTC)

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