Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Robert Alford

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 to delete. W.marsh 00:51, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Robert Alford

Autobiographical article by Ralford (talk · contribs), who is a functionary in what appears to eb a minor Canadian political party. There is a template for officers of this party; the row for "provinvial policy vice president" has no other entries, apparently. Has not been elected to a national office, in fact doesn't seem to have been elected to any office at all. If this meets WP:BLP I can't quite see how. Just zis Guy you know? 21:23, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

• delete vanity autobiography, NN politician. Pete.Hurd 22:09, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

Note, it's a provincal party. Even if elected, he would not have held a national office Pete.Hurd 22:47, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

• Delete JzG's comprehensive nomination does the business Politepunk 22:32, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
• Weak delete. The Alberta Alliance is a minor provincial party in Alberta; it got about 10% of the vote in the last provincial election. Alford is a VP in that party. That probably does not quite make it to notability imo. Bucketsofg 22:57, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

afterthought. Perhaps he should be merged into the Alberta Alliance article.

• Delete per nom. Ardenn 01:59, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep He's been the leader of a major provincial political party. He's more notable than Grant Neufeld IMHO. Ardenn 02:01, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Heh. Thanks Ardenn :-) Keep and cleanup. His leadership of the Socreds is notable—even if during a low period in their history. —GrantNeufeld 18:08, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
• Strong keep. Was leader of a party that formed government in Alberta for decades in the past. Every other leader of a party of equivalent note in Canada has or will soon have a Wikipedia article, probably every one besides this being written by Wikipedia's earnest community of Canadian political historians. Samaritan 05:05, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep as he was the leader of the Social Credit Party of Alberta. Note the list of leaders in the article on the party. Luigizanasi 17:51, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

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.