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The result was delete. - Mailer Diablo 20:04, 28 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Abid Chohan[edit]

Under WP:BIO it says that a politician must either be "Political figures holding international, national or statewide/provincewide office or members of a national, state or provincial legislature" or "Major local political figures who receive (or received) significant press coverage". Manchester City council is not a legislature and no evidence has been provided that there is significant press coverage for this figure. Are councillors on substantial councils inherently notable? JASpencer 17:48, 23 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep. The article is a stub, but I would be inclined to keep him as a member of a notable city council. --TruthbringerToronto (Talk | contribs) 18:31, 23 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete No ex-officio encyclopedic notability for a ward councillor (or even for a city council member, I would argue). This person is not a councillor representing the whole of Manchester. He's one of three[1] councillors for Longsight ward i.e. a small segment of Manchester city. There are 32 wards in Manchester city, each with 3 councillors (so 96 in total)[2]. In 2001, Longsight had a population of 16,000[3] - about 3.8% of Manchester city's total residents in 2001[4] or about 0.6% of the total Greater Manchester urban population of 2.5 million[5]. Bwithh 19:06, 23 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per Bwithh. Local politician of no particular notability. Ohconfucius 13:37, 24 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Strong delete per Bwithh. -- Kicking222 13:41, 24 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment Would it be better to merge this with Longsight, his ward? JASpencer 13:44, 24 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment 2 He was put in a batch of councillors at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Manchester councillors, but there were differences within the batch. There was also a failed concensus here. JASpencer 14:03, 24 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. Local authority councillors with no other notability do not need an article. David | Talk 14:11, 24 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Strong delete: only 200 google hits; no reason presented to keep article. John Broughton 18:29, 24 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. Local councillors not automatically notable. Espresso Addict 09:48, 25 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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