Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Martin Singh

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The result was merge to New Democratic Party leadership election, 2012#Martin Singh. (non-admin closure) Michaelzeng7 (talk) 16:14, 12 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Martin Singh

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Minor candidate in NDP 2012 leadership race. No other notability. Doesn't meet WP:Politician requirements. Recommend delete or redirect to New Democratic Party leadership election, 2012. Suttungr (talk) 13:30, 28 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions. Northamerica1000^(talk) 13:48, 28 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions. Northamerica1000^(talk) 13:48, 28 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Northamerica1000^(talk) 14:39, 28 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to New Democratic Party leadership election, 2012#Martin Singh. Fails WP:Politician. PK T(alk) 20:31, 31 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Michaelzeng7 (talk) 20:04, 4 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

For the record, our practice many years ago, when Wikipedia's content rules were still being made up on the fly, used to be that anybody who was a candidate in a political party's leadership race, no matter how major or minor, always qualified for an independent article on that basis even if they had never attained any other claim of notability whatsoever — which is why you still see this happening in actual practice even though that criterion never actually made it into WP:POLITICIAN as a valid claim of notability. Given the considerable tightening of WP:BLP rules that has taken place since the practice was first established, however, it just can't stay that way anymore — a person who is notable only as a minor leadership candidate, but has never served in any other political role that would make them notable, now fails WP:BLP1E and should therefore be mentioned in the article on the leadership race itself rather than being given their own standalone article. Merge to New Democratic Party leadership election, 2012#Martin Singh. Bearcat (talk) 17:23, 5 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect/Merge to New Democratic Party leadership election, 2012. Same kind of article as Martin Singh and thus should have same result. Atrian (talk) 18:50, 5 August 2013 (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.