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 no consensus. Changes made since the AfD was listed help fill this out some; if editors feel that the article is still questionable, send it back here after a month or two. Tijuana Brass (talk) 08:24, 26 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Matthew Marr[edit]

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This man is a political advisor who apparently never ran for office on his own. Speedy was declined due to some notability, but that notability is based on an event that occurred earlier this week and may well be short-lived. I am taking this to AfD at the admin's suggestion.

• Delete. Blanchardb (talk) 14:50, 18 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep These events occur few and far between, in the public eye anyway. I think it is s fairly unusual cultural event, specific to the Scottish political landscape. I think that makes it notable. scope_creep (talk) 15:08, 18 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment The mere fact an event is unusual does not by itself make it notable. Furthermore, we are not here discussing the notability of the event, but that of one of its actors. The man could very well be regarded as a rising star within his party, and, if he runs for office five years from now and Wikipedia has a largely untouched article about him that mentions only this unfortunate event, it could do undue harm to his career. So, before an article is written about this man, one should wait for him to have a more lasting claim to notability. --Blanchardb (talk) 01:10, 19 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per nom. A nine days' wonder, if that. JohnCD (talk) 16:30, 18 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge With Wendy windbags article. --Barryob Vigeur de dessus 18:22, 18 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per nom.   jj137 (Talk) 21:14, 18 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge with either the Wendy Alexander article or the one on Alex Salmond. Not notable enough for its own article, but the event may be worthy of recording. Tim Ross·^talk 22:36, 20 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. Unremarkable person whose fifteen minutes of fame have long since passed. WWGB (talk) 09:27, 21 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep Marr is a well known figure within the Scottish PLP (Parliamentary Labour Party). In regards to the post of Parliamentary Advisor not being notable enough, I need only point to other high profile spin doctors who have made a name for themselves in politics. In addition Marr has a reputation as head of the student union. Boatcolour (talk) 23:44, 22 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep. The subject clearly passes WP:BIO, now that I have added another piece of substantial coverage, and I am just about to add this. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 12:27, 25 November 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.