Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gregory Martin (politician)

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was delete. JohnCD (talk) 20:41, 3 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Gregory Martin (politician)

(Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL)

Delete; city councillor in a city too small for its city councillors to qualify as notable under WP:POLITICIAN. The wikistandard for city councillors to be considered sufficiently notable is generally that the city is a major, internationally famous metropolitan city, or alternatively that the article makes a strong and well-sourced claim that the person is more notable than most other city councillors for some substantive reason — but this person meets neither of those standards. His candidacy in a federal election, further, does not get him over the bar, as candidates for office also do not pass WP:POLITICIAN just by virtue of being candidates; if a person has not won election to a notable office, then you have to be able to properly demonstrate that they pass a different notability guideline (e.g. as a writer, an athlete, etc.) to justify an article. In addition, the article is cited only to a single primary source, namely his bio on the city's own webpage, and even that is actually now a dead link. As always, I'd be willing to withdraw this nomination if the article could be revised to make a more substantive and well-sourced demonstration of notability for something more than just being a smalltown city councillor and unsuccessful MP candidate — but in its current state it's a clear delete. Bearcat (talk) 18:03, 23 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 18:05, 23 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Ontario-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 01:51, 25 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 01:51, 25 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Very few town councillors are generally held to be notable. -- Necrothesp (talk) 13:58, 26 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.