Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dan Brooks

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The result was delete. Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 17:44, 24 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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WP:BLP of a politician, notable only for having briefly been the leader of a minor political party without legislative representation. As always, this is not an automatic notability guarantee under WP:NPOL -- the key to making a person notable for something like this is to write a substantive and well-sourced article that demonstrates the significance of his leadership, not just to verify that he existed as a political party leader. But of the seven footnotes here, one is his own self-written content on his own self-published website, and two are just reduplicated repetitions of two of the other four -- so there are really only four reliable sources here, and all of them are just covering the fact of his initial selection or the fact of his resignation two years later. But simply verifying the start and end dates of his leadership term is not how you make a leader of a minor political party, which had no representation in the legislature during his term as leader, notable enough for a Wikipedia article -- you need ongoing coverage of his work in the role to demonstrate the significance of his leadership, and simply being able to verify that he existed as a minor political party leader is not an "inherent" notability freebie. Bearcat (talk) 15:52, 17 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 15:52, 17 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of British Columbia-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 15:52, 17 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete leader of a minor party with no power.John Pack Lambert (talk) 18:37, 18 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions. Darryl Kerrigan (talk) 18:46, 18 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete per nom. The topic of this article does not meet WP:NPOL, nor WP:GNG.--Darryl Kerrigan (talk) 18:48, 18 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per nom. No notability. Me-123567-Me (talk) 20:14, 18 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per nom and above, leader of a minor party with no significant coverage. — Kawnhr (talk) 18:48, 20 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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