Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ilan Shohat

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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) Esquivalience ^t 00:09, 1 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Ilan Shohat

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Article created on a person who was elected to the Knesset in Israel's recent elections. However, they have opted not to take up their seat, so will not have been a Knesset member. Thus they fail WP:POLITICIAN (and being a mayor of Safed, a small town in the north of Israel) is not really sufficient to confer notability. Prod removed by an IP without explanation. Number 5 7 21:34, 25 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Delete I created this article, and I'm fine with it being deleted due to the reasons you mentioned above. Stainedglasscurtain (talk) 22:11, 25 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Lakun.patra (talk) 04:50, 26 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. Lakun.patra (talk) 04:50, 26 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Israel-related deletion discussions. Lakun.patra (talk) 04:51, 26 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. But he does meet GNG. See, for example, articles here and here and here and here and here and here. Nor is the coverage for one event. Epeefleche (talk) 06:52, 26 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete I see that there are some 3rd party references but not anymore than you would see for any other mayor. He is young and might be notable in the future, but at the moment I don't see notability to warrant a wikipedia entry, not every Mayor is notable just like not every CEO of a small company is notable. Bryce Carmony (talk) 12:07, 26 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Those 3rd party references you see are significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject. Which is precisely what wp:GNG says makes a subject notable for wikipedia purposes. Epeefleche (talk) 18:26, 26 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. Doesn't need to meet WP:POLITICIAN, when it plainly meets GNG. Plenty of coverage about him on account of his decision to give up his Knesset seat, and previous non-Knesset activity. What's the point to delete a non-promotional, well soruced article about a man with plenty of media coverage, just because he's not quite as prominent as some users would like? Spare a few kilobytes for the poor mayor of Safed; his article meets our standards. -- Y not? 14:16, 26 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- From the WP:OTHERCRAPEXISTS department, I would refer everyone to much less exciting Israeli mayor articles, such as Aviram Dahari, Khaled Aghbariyya, Meir Yitzhak Halevi, Yossi Brodny. Let's delete those instead. -- Y not? 14:39, 26 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

That's accurate -- it doesn't need to meet wp:politician. I'm actually surprised that the nomination fails to mention GNG at all, and solely focuses on wp:politician. If one searches in Hebrew, one finds even additional substantial RS coverage; it is certainly ample to meet GNG. --Epeefleche (talk) 20:48, 26 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Clearly meets WP:GNG, significant coverage in major newspapers, as User:Epeefleche points out above.E.M.Gregory (talk) 20:26, 26 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Keep as meeting both GNG and the POLITICIAN high bar, having been elected to the Knesset, even if he did resign the seat. Carrite (talk) 12:45, 29 March 2015 (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.