Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Michael Oddy (1st nom)

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 of the debate was no consensus, default to keep. I see 5 delete to 3 keep. Plus, many of the early deletes were placed before the party leader info came to light. --Celestianpower ^háblame 21:39, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Michael Oddy

Non-notable Canadian politician. A minor candidate who has never been elected. Delete Atrian 05:31, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

• Delete as nn.Blnguyen 05:43, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete getting a lot of these Canadian politicians with under 1000 votes articles. Ruby 06:23, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete - nn. I've added his info to Green Party candidates, 2004 Canadian federal election. --GrantNeufeld 12:50, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, minor, and beaten, candidate in an election. To be fair he did get over 2000 votes in the most recent election (2004), so not a total whitewash. Sliggy 12:58, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. ComputerJoe 17:30, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
• Redirects are harmless; I suggest doing so, to Green Party candidates, 2004 Canadian federal election, since he was already thoughtfully merged by GrantNeufeld. Ikkyu2 17:29, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as nn. --Dogbreathcanada 21:37, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
• Keep - he is notable because he came out strongly against Harris and the federal Green's because, he says, they walked away from the Global Green Charter. It got a fair amount of national press and was one of the first such comments about the federal greens. And, he was the leader of the provincial green party.... WayeMason 23:30, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Which provincial party was he leader of, and when? If this is documented somewhere, that would be sufficient notability for me to change my delete to a keep. --GrantNeufeld 07:01, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
    • It seems he was the interim leader of the Nova Scotia Green Party, starting late 2005, and has since resigned. [1] [2]. --Rob 08:48, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
• Change: Keep. With the added info of his party leadership (albeit for a very minor party), I'm changing from delete to keep. I've updated the article with additional information. —GrantNeufeld 09:23, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
• Keep - Mainly because there's been some national level press coverage that's included him. Though he's not the principal of such coverage (usually somebody else is), sufficient info on him is available for a decent article.--Rob 09:38, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

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