Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ashley Mitchell

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 speedy keep. The nom hasn't even bothered with searching for sources as these have all been nominated within seconds of each other. No objections to speedy renomination by anyone except the nom. (non-admin closure) –Davey2010^Talk 01:37, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Ashley Mitchell[edit]

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Failed parliamentary candidate. Uhooep (talk) 02:49, 12 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Vipinhari || talk 14:06, 12 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of United Kingdom-related deletion discussions. Vipinhari || talk 14:06, 12 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Not just a parliamentary candidate but a notable Georgist theorist and company director. The book search link above features his published memoirs. You have to be reasonably notable for a publishing house to publish your memoirs. Graemp (talk) 11:35, 14 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

There isn't any reliable sourcing present here that's covering him in the context of his Georgist theorizing — that could be a valid claim of notability if it were properly sourced, but is not an automatic inclusion freebie just because it's asserted. And while having preexisting notability certainly can't hurt in terms of getting an opportunity to publish one's memoirs, it isn't a necessary precondition in the slightest — thousands of people over the years have published memoirs just because they had a compelling and marketable story to tell, without having had any preexisting encyclopedic notability prior to the memoir itself. Just off the top of my head, Frank McCourt was a non-notable high school teacher prior to the publication of Angela's Ashes — the memoir itself got him over our notability bar because it won a notable literary award, but he was not already known or notable for anything prior to its publication. Bearcat (talk) 17:45, 14 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

As currently written, the content and referencing in this article is stacking his notability entirely onto his non-winning candidacies for office, with nothing substantive being said about either his Georgist-theory background or his memoir beyond unsourced assertions that those things existed. Those latter things might make him eligible for a Wikipedia article that was written and sourced differently than this, but his notability for either of them has not been adequately shown by this version. Delete, without prejudice against recreation if somebody can find the proper sourcing necessary to get him over WP:AUTHOR as a memoirist or a Georgist. Bearcat (talk) 17:45, 14 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Keep: I have updated the article to expand on his career and his views. I have also added a reference for his published memoirs and added information of other authors citeing him on Georgism, providing reliable sources. Graemp (talk) 15:02, 18 March 2016 (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.