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The result was Keep Yasht101 01:49, 2 May 2012 (UTC) (non-admin closure)[reply]

John Percy (politician)[edit]

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Does not meet WP:POLITICIAN. Only significant references to him appear to come from Green Party websites. West Eddy (talk) 10:34, 25 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep former leader of a registered political party. Me-123567-Me (talk) 15:22, 25 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Also falls under WP:OUTCOMES#People. Me-123567-Me (talk) 15:32, 25 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions. PKT(alk) 17:30, 25 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep As per WP:OUTCOMES#People Leaders of registered political parties at the national or major sub-national (state, province, prefecture, etc.) level are usually considered notable regardless of that party's degree of electoral success. jlcooke

Comment: Possible conflict of interest: jlcooke is a known Green Party supporter. —Preceding undated comment added 21:06, 27 April 2012 (UTC).[reply]

• Keep Leaders of registered political parties at the national or major sub-national (state, province, prefecture, etc.) level are usually considered notable regardless of that party's degree of electoral success. WP:OUTCOMES#People — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pdacortex (talk • contribs) 01:51, 26 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep John Percy is the current leader of a Canadian provincial party. As verified by the GPNS website. Pdacortex (talk) 02:27, 26 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep, notable under WP:POLITICIAN. The Green Party of Nova Scotia clearly isn't a minor party with running full slates in elections. 117Avenue (talk) 03:37, 26 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Nova Scotia-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 02:16, 27 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 02:16, 27 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

• Any past consensus to "keep all leaders of political parties" has long since been overridden by Wikipedia's core requirement that biographies of living persons need to be sourced to the hilt or get canned; there is no "somebody might improve it someday" exemption for BLPs anymore. Keep if the article is improved by close; redirect to the party if it isn't. Notability is a question of the quality of sources that are or aren't present in the article, not a question of blanket "all X are notable" proclamations — if the sources aren't there, then an article does not get to stay. Bearcat (talk) 03:47, 30 April 2012 (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.