Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tom Pursglove

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 was userfied. by agreemenr with nominator and article author JohnCD (talk) 23:25, 18 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Tom Pursglove[edit]

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He is only a local councillor and a candidate for Parliament. Neither of those satisfy WP:POLITICIAN. If he wins it will be re-created but there is no reason for him to currently have an article (other than as an advertising tool for his candidacy). Being a candidate for a marginal seat does not make him notable. Being 18 when he was elected a councillor is not notable as many others have been elected at that age. Gaia Octavia Agrippa^Talk 15:40, 18 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of England-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 17:09, 18 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 17:10, 18 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - per WP:POLITICIAN, being an unelected candidate does not confer notability, and I do not think his local council activities do, either. JohnCD (talk) 18:56, 18 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

As the original poster of the page I'm fine with seeing it go into some invisible state until after the election but I'm not sure how to do that Wschosta (talk) 19:17, 18 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@Wschosta: if you like, and if the nominator agrees, I can "userfy" it - move it to a user subpage at User:Wschosta/Tom Pursglove as a parking-place until the election. JohnCD (talk) 19:30, 18 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@JohnCD: that sounds like an acceptable solution to me Wschosta (talk) 19:32, 18 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@Gaia Octavia Agrippa: as nominator, do you have any objection if I userfy? Then the AfD can be closed. JohnCD (talk) 19:36, 18 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

No objections to that. The article as it is would be a good start if he does win the election. Gaia Octavia Agrippa^Talk 22:32, 18 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@JohnCD: my only other request would be to put a redirect from his name to the General Election 2015 page (apologies for my lack of knowledge about how to do these things) Wschosta (talk) 23:24, 18 December 2014 (UTC) (whoops, forgot to login again)[reply]

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