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The result was delete. Spartaz ^Humbug! 05:15, 24 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Mark McDonald[edit]

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Insufficiently notable person. There are a lot of claims of importance in this article (respected lawyer, founder of charities, political activist), and I don't doubt that any of it is true, but I doubt that collectively they add up to notability. The strongest claim to notability here is unsuccessfully running for Treasurer of the Labour Party, which did receive some coverage from third party sources: [1],[2],[3]. But failed political candidates aren't automatically notable, and I can't find much coverage in reliable sources apart from that. Robofish (talk) 22:12, 16 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. -- Jclemens-public (talk) 22:51, 16 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of England-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 01:11, 18 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Either Redirect to Wantage (UK Parliament constituency) or Merge to Labour party proxy and undeclared donations (2007). He did get some attention by standing against the Labour Party Treasurer in 2007 following the proxy donation disaster, but that's not really notable beyond this story. The rest of the article looks like little more than a reprint of a parliamentary candidate's autobiography, which isn't what Wikipedia artiles are for. Chris Neville-Smith (talk) 13:21, 18 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete -- Most of the article describes his education and his practice as a barrister (=NN). We then briefly hear that he failed to get elected WP:POLITICIAN makes it clear that makes him NN. I do not favour redirecting or merging, becasue this NN bio-article can reappear too easily. Peterkingiron (talk) 21:05, 19 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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