Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gary Spedding

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The result was delete. The Bushranger _{One ping only} 02:06, 26 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Gary Spedding[edit]

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Transferring from PROD deletion request by 90.216.103.173, article is too substantial for simple PROD deletion. Ronhjones ^(Talk) 00:28, 18 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Keep He seems to have gotten quite a bit of substantial press attention. Here's an article by the BBC http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-25688529. BayShrimp (talk) 00:40, 18 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Northern Ireland-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 01:16, 18 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 01:16, 18 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Delete The "Political and social career" section is full of WP:PEACOCK language like "Spedding has worked on behalf of the LGBT community, as well, in their struggle for equal rights." Of the sources that are provided, all but four of them are letters to the editor that he has written, which are in no way reliable sources. The only others are two press releases that mention him in passing, for example this one that says he's been elected to the Alliance Party Youth Executive Committee; and two self-published blog posts that violate WP:BLOGS and are not appropriate or reliable sources for his BLP. He thus clearly fails WP:POLITICIAN. He's never even been a candidate for office, he just works for a political party and has written some letters to the editor.

Finally, the section "Human rights advocacy in Israel/Palestine" which is, apart from the section on his deportation from Israel, 2 lines long and notes that he founded a university Palestine solidarity society. As for the section on his deportation from Israel, it's a prime example of WP:BLP1E and WP:NOTNEWS. Every single one of the sources about his deportation is from within a few days of the incident, which was back in January. There is clearly no enduring notability in this event which received routine coverage in the news - "Palestine activist deported from Israel". The event itself was, per WP:NOTNEWS, notable enough to receive press coverage for a couple of days, but there is no enduring notability beyond that and he is not himself notable. Per BLP1E, each of the 3 criteria for deleting this article are met:

"reliable sources cover the person only in the context of a single event" - true, the only other sources provided are blogs and letters to the editor he's written.

"If that person otherwise remains, and is likely to remain, a low-profile individual" - again, aside from the routine coverage of his deportation, he's received no significant coverage in reliable sources, either before or since the event.

"If the event is not significant" - man was deported from Israel. There was routine press coverage on it and a week later, it was forgotten about.

As his political career fails WP:POLITICIAN and the only thing that he has received attention for is a single, routinely-covered news event, the article should be deleted. Tiller54 (talk) 17:02, 18 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

weak delete probably meets GNG but the overly promotional and WP:AUTOBIO nature of the article really makes it non-redeemable BlueSalix (talk) 05:18, 20 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Fails wp:blp1e and wp:politician. Once the poorly sourced (to blogs and letters he's written to newspapers) claims have been removed, the only thing that's left is the fact that he was once deported from Israel. There's nothing else to say. The incident is not significant, he remains a low-profile individual and the coverage stopped 2 days after the incident happened. Dcfc1988 (talk) 23:11, 21 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Delete, for much the same reasons as Dcfc1988. Article very largely puts a one-sided positive view of Spedding while only being cited to news articles by him (rather than about him). The news articles about his airport detention in Israel contain little if any biographical info. Fails WP:GNG and WP:POLITICIAN. Sionk (talk) 23:14, 22 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Weak keep-- it seems like GNG is met. BLP1E would be an issue were it not for the fact that Spedding could be seen as high-profile (in his activism and politics). Darmokand (talk) 10:11, 25 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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