Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kevin Clarke (politician)

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The result was keep. Wily D 09:11, 29 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Kevin Clarke (politician)[edit]

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WP:BLP of a political activist and perennial candidate, without sufficient sourcing to get him past WP:GNG in lieu of his failure to satisfy WP:NPOL — with the exception of an Elections Ontario table of political party leaders which constitutes directory coverage, once I stripped some references for being deadlinky or youtubey the only ones left were of the "publication and date" variety without the actual article titles for verifiability purposes. And with only six of those, even, the volume of coverage needed to get him over GNG simply isn't there. Delete. Bearcat (talk) 04:22, 12 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 04:22, 12 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 04:22, 12 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - Numerous reliable sources can be found through a cursory google search. (For example:[1][2][3]) With another six sources in the article, I don't think the subject fails WP:BASIC.--180.172.239.231 (talk) 11:46, 12 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Ontario-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 13:13, 12 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Failed candidates are not notabile.John Pack Lambert (talk) 01:04, 17 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - The article needs work, for sure, but the notability seems to be there. Right now it reads like a list of sentences rather than an article, so that needs to be fixed. Also, it would be good to find a few reliable sources that aren't the Toronto newspaper. However, if those can't be found, it may not be a problem because he is definitely a local celebrity. (If there were a Canadian Wikipedia, and this would be a no-brainer.)LaMona (talk) 03:51, 17 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, MrScorch6200 (talk | ctrb) 23:44, 19 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Please do not delete deadlinks (youtube is another matter) per WP:LINKROT#Keeping_dead_links: "A dead, unarchived source URL may still be useful. Such a link indicates that information was (probably) verifiable in the past, and the link might provide another user with greater resources or expertise with enough information to find the reference. It could also return from the dead. With a dead link, it is possible to determine if it has been cited elsewhere, or to contact the person originally responsible for the source." Using the wayback machine, I was able to retrieve at least the first reference nominator deleted: KEVIN CLARKE:He's concerned about the quality of drinking water. 24.151.10.165 (talk) 18:22, 20 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. Meetss WP:NOTABLE with multiple news coverage. Harrison2014 (talk) 17:20, 23 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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