Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Richard Lee (Canadian politician)

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The result was keep. Nominator withdrawn. §FreeRangeFrog^croak 02:38, 5 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Richard Lee (Canadian politician)[edit]

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Fails WP:NPOL. TheQ Tester (talk) 05:08, 28 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Bit confused at this nom. Point 1 of WP:NPOL clearly states that someone who's held sub-national office (provincewide) meets it. He's a member of the BC legislative assembly which is the government of the province of British Columbia in Canada. Cowlibob (talk) 09:13, 28 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Keep As Cowlibob says he does meet the notability guideline as a member of the British Columbia legislative assembly. Davewild (talk) 18:31, 28 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of British Columbia-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 19:32, 28 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 19:32, 28 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Article does need some sourcing improvements (two of the three citations are to a primary source), but serving members of a provincial or state legislature do meet WP:NPOL. Flag for refimprove, but keep. Bearcat (talk) 23:05, 28 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Clear keep: 100% unambiguous keep in line with policy. Can this discussion be closed now? Flaming Ferrari (talk) 15:26, 29 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - Clearly meets point 1 for politicians. -- Whpq (talk) 17:26, 30 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Obviously as a member of a sub-national legislature. The nominator clearly hasn't actually read the guideline he's cited as a reason for deletion. -- Necrothesp (talk) 12:33, 2 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy Keep - He's a MLA of the British Columbia Provincial Assembly, the equivalent of an elected US state representative. Instapass of WP:POLITICIAN. Carrite (talk) 17:17, 3 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - I see that the User page for User:TheQ Tester declares "This account is used to carry out harmless experiments for example: testing out some Welcome notices and talkback templates." One person's "harmless experiment" is another person's "pointless disruption," I reckon... Was there a purpose behind this flagrantly bad nomination? If so, what??? Carrite (talk) 17:40, 3 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The user in question most likely just forgot to sign out of his "testing" account and into his "editing" account first, so I wouldn't worry about that too much. And in all likelihood, the user also just misunderstood WP:POLITICIAN rather than having an ulterior motive to actively undermine it. Bearcat (talk) 22:55, 3 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

withdraw - and yes, I've read WP:Politician wrong. Sorry for all the mess I created. And the only testing going on is on my talk page, not on another namespace.TheQ Tester (talk) 04:00, 4 July 2014 (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.