Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/George Takach

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The result was merge to Liberal Party of Canada leadership election, 2013. (non-admin closure) czar · · 05:40, 12 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

George Takach

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Not sure why this page was created. According to Wikipedia:Articles for creation/George Takach this page was declined but it was created anyway. Only claim to fame is that he was a minor candidate for Liberal Party leadership. Recommend delete or redirect to Liberal Party of Canada leadership election, 2013. Suttungr (talk) 21:42, 27 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

He's a lot more notable in my opinion than some of the pages that have been created and are still active. As well Martin Singh, who ran for the NDP leadership, still has a Wikipedia page and it doesn't seem to have been disputed. If Takach's is deleted then there are many others that's should be too. As for whether it should be deleted or not I don't really know. Newfoundlander&Labradorian (talk) 23:44, 27 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Comment This article is much like others that are created prior to elections for candidates. They get deleted or redirected once they fail to get elected. This article must be able to stand on its own merits. Right now Takach's only notability is for his candidacy for leadership. He didn't even stay until the finale but withdrew prior to the convention. Thanks for the mention about Martin Singh. I've Afd' that article too. Suttungr (talk) 13:39, 28 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions. Northamerica1000^(talk) 12:48, 28 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Northamerica1000^(talk) 12:48, 28 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions. Northamerica1000^(talk) 12:49, 28 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, — Crisco 1492 (talk) 09:50, 4 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

For the record, our practice many years ago, when Wikipedia's content rules were still being made up on the fly, used to be that anybody who was a candidate in a political party's leadership race, no matter how major or minor, always qualified for an independent article on that basis even if they had never attained any other claim of notability whatsoever — which is why you still see this happening in actual practice even though that criterion never actually made it into WP:POLITICIAN as a valid claim of notability. Given the considerable tightening of WP:BLP rules that has taken place since the practice was first established, however, it just can't stay that way anymore — a person who is notable only as a minor leadership candidate, but has never served in any other political role that would make them notable, now fails WP:BLP1E and should therefore be mentioned in the article on the leadership race itself rather than being given their own standalone article. Merge to Liberal Party of Canada leadership election, 2013. Bearcat (talk) 17:49, 5 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect/Merge to Liberal Party of Canada leadership election, 2013. This has been the fate of such articles as these that I have seen. Atrian (talk) 18:49, 5 August 2013 (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.