The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was delete. - Mailer Diablo 12:35, 20 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Christopher_Stalford[edit]

Reason the page should be deleted

Vanity article in breach of Wikipedia guidelines.

Subject of the article is a minor (local) politician in Northern Ireland. He is not a member of either the elected Northern Ireland Assembly or the UK Parliament but is rather merely a local councillor and a former failed student politician. Pondersomething 14:12, 11 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete Local councillors are not notable in themselves. Timrollpickering 14:30, 11 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete as non-notable. Akradecki 15:53, 11 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Weak keep. The Wikipedia notability guidelines mention statewide/provincewide politicians, without reference to the fact that these words have different meanings in, for example, Ireland - where a county is the equivalent of a state in importance, although not in population or area. As such, I recommend a keep, as Belfast City Council is as important as, for example, Mayo County Council. Supersheep 18:53, 11 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep, as per Supersheep, -- TruthbringerToronto (Talk | contribs) 18:59, 11 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete Belfast is a city (admittedly an important one) and not a county. I don't see councillors in it (or even Mayo county council) as having any real importance. Dlyons493 Talk 22:54, 11 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I never said Belfast was a county, merely that its City Council was at least as important as Mayo County Council, and that members of the latter would appear to fit the notability criteria for politicians. Supersheep 13:21, 12 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

• Weak Delete. Although the sum of the parts means he is more than just a city councillor (as assistant to an assemblyman and MEP), I would contend that his day will come. He's making the right moves but is not notable enough yet. Ohconfucius 03:50, 12 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete One would doubt wikipedia could cope with the sheer volume of enrties if it started having pages on every politician as minor as this.Traditional unionist 18:05, 12 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Strong Delete Wikipedia is cluttered enough with minor politicians constructing vanity pages for themselves.wibbled 19:31, 12 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete - very clearly NN. --Mais oui! 11:48, 16 August 2006 (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.