Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tracy Parsons

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The result was redirect to Progressive Canadian Party#PC Party leaders. Mark Arsten (talk) 19:07, 27 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Tracy Parsons

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Minor party leader and unsuccessful candidate. Not notable. Aaaccc (talk) 20:28, 20 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to Cumberland—Colchester—Musquodoboit Valley. As a losing candidate for a federal election, a redirect is more appropriate than a deletion. Enos733 (talk) 21:36, 20 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, people don't get redirects for losing. 117Avenue (talk) 05:24, 21 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Comment from WP:POLOUTCOMES "Unelected candidates for a national legislature or other national office are not viewed as having inherent notability and are often deleted or merged into long lists of campaign hopefuls, such as New Democratic Party candidates, 2004 Canadian federal election, or into articles detailing the specific race in question, such as United States Senate election in Nevada, 2010." There is RS coverage of her campaign. Enos733 (talk) 15:22, 21 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect- Possibly to Progressive Canadian Party#PC Party leaders, instead. Dru of Id (talk) 14:43, 21 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
An unelected candidate doesn't qualify for an article just for being a candidate, true, but per WP:POLOUTCOMES a party leader can potentially qualify for an article on the basis of being a party leader ("Leaders of registered political parties at the national or major sub-national (state, province, prefecture, etc.) level are usually considered notable regardless of that party's degree of electoral success.") That said, however, we still have to be able to properly source an article about the person as a topic in their own right, because without that they still fail WP:BLP — and in the absence of such sourcing, the most appropriate solution is to redirect them to the article on the political party that they led. Redirect to Progressive Canadian Party#PC Party leaders — Ernie Schreiber should go with her, for that matter, as he's entirely unsourced now that I've removed the dead meetup.com event listing that article was passing off as its only source — but by virtue of being a party leader, she (and Schreiber) would be allowed to stand as an independent topic if better sourcing can actually be cited. Bearcat (talk) 03:13, 26 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to Progressive Canadian Party#PC Party leaders as per above. Stuartyeates (talk) 09:31, 27 June 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.