Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bruce Haines

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The result was delete. Courcelles 17:56, 25 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Bruce Haines

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I've just deleted a large chunk of biography copied from a copyright page on his campaign site. In the process I've been looking for clear evidence of notability, but haven't found any. Of course, I may have missed something. Dougweller (talk) 19:25, 18 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Strong delete Fails WP:POLITICIAN as a candidate for office not otherwise notable. ukexpat (talk) 16:29, 21 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. At present, there do not appear to be any significant coverage of the subject to show that he meets WP:GNG, or any non-trivial coverage about the campaign to show notability per WP:POLITICIAN. Being a winning candidate in a provincial election might (?) grant notability, but without any actual sourceable content, being a losing candidate surely does not. --Kinu ^t/_c 03:06, 22 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Don't delete, Merge to Bramalea--Gore--Malton (provincial electoral district) in accord with what should be a policy. JJB 08:01, 24 September 2010 (UTC)
- Other than the fact that he was the party's nominee, the article on the candidate doesn't even mention the election for that political district. Likewise, that article is about the district, not specifically that year's election, and doesn't look like a good place to dump an NN-bio about what appears to be also-ran candidate. I don't see anything worth salvaging that legitimately belongs at that article. --Kinu ^t/_c 19:30, 24 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per guideline at WP:Wikipedia is not a source for election candidate biographies. Fails WP:POLITICIAN. Although I don't quite agree with what JJB has suggested, there should be more discussion someplace regarding how to deal with candidates and elections and the coverage they do receive. I don't believe routine election news coverage is enough for creating stand-alone biographies, but an argument could be made for merging those details into articles about higher level elections. Location (talk) 19:00, 24 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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