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Edward Legard

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Unreferenced, non-notable per WP:POLITICIAN: being a prospective Parliamentary candidate does not automatically confer notability. Promotional tone per WP:PROMO; evident WP:Conflict of interest by creator. Proposed deletion contested by creator. MuffledThud (talk) 22:16, 25 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. —MuffledThud (talk) 22:17, 25 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of England-related deletion discussions. —MuffledThud (talk) 22:18, 25 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. The gnews hits show a range of incidental coverage, but not the significant coverage that would be required to pass WP:GNG in the face of such an obvious failure to pass WP:POLITICIAN. Aside from the notability guidelines, it would take a mammoth swing for Legard to win Darlington, so if this article is kept its likely, at least for a few years, to be for a forgotten political candidate only. --Mkativerata (talk) 22:25, 25 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Darlington is actually a Con/Lab swing seat (or at least it was pre-Blair), but that doesn't matter. Very little coverage, clear WP:POLITICIAN. At the most, redirect to the constituency page and include an external link to his official site. Chris Neville-Smith (talk) 22:42, 25 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete or redirect. No RS or V. Does not meet BIO or POLITICIAN. NN. Kittybrewster ☎ 22:50, 25 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - no evidence of notability; being a PPC and a local councillor is insufficient. Warofdreams talk 00:18, 26 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

This AfD nomination was incomplete (missing step 3). It is listed now. DumbBOT (talk) 13:04, 26 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Keep lots of references, although these are not yet inline. Notable as well. (Bgeelhoed (talk) 15:21, 26 January 2010 (UTC)).[reply]

The references are all either self-published, or quotes in a local newspaper.

This may be true, but even if it is: Wikipedia does not forbid to refer to self-published work. Also referring to local newspapers is not forbidden. So notability is not affected. (Bgeelhoed (talk) 23:12, 26 January 2010 (UTC)).[reply]

Warofdreams talk 15:30, 26 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Delete quite clearly fails WP:POLITICIAN notability. JBsupreme (talk) 18:45, 26 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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 :*This AfD nomination was incomplete (missing [[:Template:AfD in 3 steps|step 3]]). It is listed now. [[User:DumbBOT|DumbBOT]] ([[User talk:DumbBOT|talk]]) 13:04, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
 *'''Keep''' lots of references, although these are not yet inline. Notable as well. ([[User:Bgeelhoed|Bgeelhoed]] ([[User talk:Bgeelhoed|talk]]) 15:21, 26 January 2010 (UTC)).
-::The references are all either self-published, or quotes in a local newspaper. [[User:Warofdreams|Warofdreams]] ''[[User talk:Warofdreams|talk]]'' 15:30, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
+::The references are all either self-published, or quotes in a local newspaper.
+This may be true, but even if it is: Wikipedia does not forbid to refer to self-published work. Also referring to local newspapers is not forbidden. So notability is not affected. ([[User:Bgeelhoed|Bgeelhoed]] ([[User talk:Bgeelhoed|talk]]) 23:12, 26 January 2010 (UTC)).
+[[User:Warofdreams|Warofdreams]] ''[[User talk:Warofdreams|talk]]'' 15:30, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
 *'''Delete''' quite clearly fails WP:POLITICIAN notability.  [[User:JBsupreme|JBsupreme]] ([[User talk:JBsupreme|talk]]) 18:45, 26 January 2010 (UTC)