Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bruce Stubbs

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The result was delete. ✗plicit 00:21, 6 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Bruce Stubbs

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Poorly sourced biography of a former leader of a minor political party. To be fair, this was created at a time when leading any political party was accepted by Wikipedia as an "inherent" notability claim that paved over any problems with the sourcing -- but that's long since been deprecated, and leaders of minor political parties who were never themselves members of their party's caucus in the legislature for the purposes of passing WP:NPOL #1 are no longer accepted as notable if they can't be shown to pass WP:GNG on media coverage and analysis about their leadership.
But of the four footnotes here, two are primary sources that aren't support for notability at all, and the two media hits (one of which is dead but was waybackable) both just glancingly namecheck his existence as a provider of soundbite in articles about other things -- and even on a ProQuest search for older sourcing that wouldn't have googled, I only found a couple more brief glancing namechecks of his existence as a party leader and coincidental name matches for other Bruce Stubbses (primarily an Ontario government resource technician who died in a helicopter crash in 2003), with still no new sources that were actually about him in any non-trivial sense.
Nothing here is "inherently" notable enough (no, he doesn't get brownie points for having a notable daughter, either) to exempt him from having to have much better sourcing than this. Bearcat (talk) 16:34, 29 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Politicians and Alberta. Bearcat (talk) 16:34, 29 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: The Alberta Party isn't a minor party, but moreso a smaller regional party; this makes it surprising to find that no sources that offer WP:SIGCOV of Stubbs exist in the archives. Fails WP:GNG. Curbon7 (talk) 18:56, 29 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per the very well reasoned argument of the nominator.John Pack Lambert (talk) 17:03, 31 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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