Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jeff Sloychuk (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 of the debate was Merge and redirect to New Democratic Party candidates, 2004 Canadian federal election. Stifle (talk) 16:49, 20 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Jeff Sloychuk (politician)[edit]

NN article that seems almost for sure to be a vanity article. Does not meet WP:BIO, only claim to noteability is having run for the NDP in Red Deer and community consensus in the past has been that failed electoral candidates do not get articles unless they're noteable for something else (which he's not) pm_shef 21:47, 11 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom. Ardenn 22:12, 11 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
But there's absolutely no community consensus to delete their articles. At the very least, if candidates at the national or state or provincial levels, they're merged and redirected into articles on X party candidates in X election not covered elsewhere. You cannot delete the original article because you have to retain its edit history under GFDL. This campaign to put such subjects through afd is completely inappropriate. Keep or merge. Samaritan 22:54, 11 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Keepp or merge per Samaritan. Ground Zero | t 23:08, 11 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, or merge at worst. Stifle (talk) 00:29, 12 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
While I realize that not everybody agrees on the notability of unelected political candidates, the precedent has already been set that federal candidates are entitled at least to inclusion in a merged list. Either keep or merge into New Democratic Party candidates, 2004 Canadian federal election; precedent already excludes outright deletion as an option. Bearcat 00:36, 12 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Merge Please do not keep. Commons has 308 seats. US House has 435. Conservatives, Liberals, NDPs, Democrats, Republicans, Libertarians, Greens and independents add up to a lot of losing canidates. A huge number lost the only election of their lives, and will go back to obscurity. Unless an individual has other notability, or made the campaign notable in some way, they should not have permanent articles. Fan1967 01:40, 12 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Merge to New Democratic Party candidates, 2004 Canadian federal election as should be done with all other failed candidates without other serious clims to notability. Luigizanasi 05:51, 12 April 2006 (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.