Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Arto Lahti

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The result was no consensus. Stifle (talk) 15:44, 13 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Arto Lahti[edit]

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Fails WP:ACADEMIC and WP:POLITICIAN. Clarityfiend (talk) 06:04, 4 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 07:08, 4 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 07:08, 4 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Finland-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 07:08, 4 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. Searching Google Scholar for the name Arto Lahti finds some reasonably well cited papers on allergic reactions in dermatology. I think these must be by someone else with the same name. If there are citations to publications by the subject of the nominated article, they're too far down to pass WP:PROF#C1. But I'm leaving this only as a comment rather than expressing a keep/delete opinion because, without being able to read Finnish, I have no confidence in my ability to judge whether he might pass some other notability criterion. —David Eppstein (talk) 07:47, 4 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Not just because of him being a professor, but due to his run as an independent candidate in the 2006 Finnish presidential election (although the vote result was very poor for him). For some reason, my Google search really bog downs results as old as 2005-06, but there certainly were in-depth articles about him in the largest Finnish newspapers when he ran for president: [1][2]. At the time, he was notable for being pretty much the only person running for any office that advocated the Karelian question. --Pudeo (talk) 08:31, 4 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete fails notability for either a politician or an academic.John Pack Lambert (talk) 12:58, 7 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: Fails notability for either a politician or an academic. The world is filled with non-notable unelected candidates. Finnish Wikipedia [3] has nothing towards WP:N. However the dermatolist might merit an article (kidding btw). // Timothy :: talk 00:27, 9 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- All nine candidates in the 2006 presidential elections appeared in national TV debates. Arto Lahti was featured in many newspaper articles (which I gave 2 examples above). He definitely ran a major and notable campaign. Thus, meets WP:GNG unless there are some bias that such candidates only are notable if they are running in the U.S. (e.g. Jill Stein, Darrell Castle, Jo Jorgensen etc.) --Pudeo (talk) 10:06, 9 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Keep He was a candidate in a major election in which he had to collect signatures to run as independent, it's not like just anyone can announce that they're a presidential candidate. Unfortunately many Finnish publications have paywalled their archives, and the most important one, Helsingin Sanomat, has not digitized all of its content between 1997-2012, but I can still find several articles. He has also been in the media outside of the election due to his professor career. -kyykaarme (talk) 19:38, 9 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Received some coverage as an academic as well as being a candidate. Sources don't have to be in English. ~EDDY ^{(talk/contribs)}~ 15:37, 11 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per kyykaarme. The delete !votes are based on the editors' belief that the subject should not be notable, which ought to carry zero weight, especially since they have made no efforts to review potential sources. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo). Treated like dirt by many administrators since 2006. Fight for freedom, stand with Hong Kong! (talk) 01:12, 12 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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