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The result was delete Mr.Z-man 14:14, 25 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Erich Jacoby-Hawkins (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log)

Non-notable Canadian politician, running twice for the House of Commons as a secondary-party candidate. Article has distinct non-neutral point of view. Author has rebuffed requests to merge into larger article about candidates from this party. Only sources are self-published or published for him by his party. Simply doesn't meet notability for stand-alone article. Realkyhick 07:33, 16 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete. A perennial failed political candidate and supporter of many worthy causes. However, as the nom states there is nothing here that makes the subject notable. Nuttah68 07:38, 16 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep he's a perfectly good major party candidate. GreenJoe 15:05, 16 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • There are a couple of users who would advocate at the minimum this should be re-directed and merged with an appropriate list. My problem with that is, he's run in so many elections, which list do you merge/direct it to? Plus to keep up with the next election etc is unmanageable. GreenJoe 15:16, 16 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • Our general practice is to merge it into the first election in which the candidate ran. It's not ideal, I grant you, but it's the closest anybody's been able to come to reconciling the demands of WP:BIO with the demands of properly encyclopedic election coverage. Bearcat 22:29, 16 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This AfD has been listed on the Canadian Wikipedians Notice Board. GreenJoe 15:14, 16 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per nom. Repeatedly failed candidate, no other assertion of notability. Merge a brief bio into Green Party candidates, 2006 Canadian federal election and Green Party candidates, 2004 Canadian federal election. Resolute 17:54, 16 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge and redirect per Resolute's rationale.--JForget 00:02, 17 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete I originally typed "Merge and redirect per Resolute" but this thing doesn't have citations to independent sources and lacks NPOV. What's to merge? If some editor wants information on this candidate included elsewhere in Wikipedia, then build from the ground up. Noroton 20:05, 22 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete Until he wins office or does something newsworthy, he's not notable Mbisanz 07:46, 24 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. Not seeing any independent, reliable sources. Certainly there should be some newspaper articles, at least, if he were a major candidate. shoy 15:29, 24 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • He is a major party candidate. The party is tied with the NDP in the polls. GreenJoe 17:43, 24 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • In PEI the party beat out the NDP, coming in 3rd. GreenJoe 01:45, 25 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per nom. Ward3001 03:04, 25 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete - Minimal RS, minimal NPOV, minimal notability...if any. Dihydrogen Monoxide (H₂O) 12:08, 25 September 2007 (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.