Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ruth O'Keeffe

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The result was delete. Ryan Postlethwaite^{See the mess I've created or let's have banter} 00:25, 28 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Ruth O'Keeffe

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An article on a run of the mill local councillor probably created by the subject. Self-promotion without evidence of notability for Wikipedia. Fails WP:GNG Charles (talk) 07:47, 5 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of England-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 15:03, 5 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 15:03, 5 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Notability guidelines are that a politician needs to be "Politicians and judges who have held international, national or sub-national (statewide/provincewide) office, and members or former members of a national, state or provincial legislature.[12] This also applies to those who have been elected to such offices but have not yet been sworn in." Subject has been a member of East Sussex County Council since 2005. In England and Wales a County is equivalent to "sub-national" office. Subject is currently group leader of the Independent Group, only female group leader in the council, and Vice Chair of Health Overview Scrutiny Committee. This can all be verified on East Sussex County Council website. In 2005 was the first female elected Independent as opposed to politician who has left a party and not yet joined another one. "Major local political figures who have received significant press coverage.[7]" Subject holds records for numerical and percentage vote at both Town and District level, and has the largest numerical or percentage majority at the most recent County elections. This is verifiable from data held on County and District websites and records of Town votes. Subject is the first Independent (as defined by election to a political post with no political party) to be Mayor of Lewes (post currently held) and previously Vice Chair of Lewes District Council. Subject has also been Lewes Personality of the Year Sussex Express local coverage can be checked to verify this, also Argus newspaper. "Just being an elected local official, or an unelected candidate for political office, does not guarantee notability, although such people can still be notable if they meet the primary notability criterion of "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject of the article". Subject did not post the original entry. Subject was a lot less notable when someone probably the subject thinks a relative (computer literate children?) put the entry up and it does need work to bring up to date to add references and recent events, which might increase notability value. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Robin1962 (talk • contribs) 16:32, 7 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

These claims re. the subject indicate that you may have a conflict of interest.--Charles (talk) 21:08, 12 June 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, czar · · 18:26, 12 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Delete -- NN -- Clearly fails WP:POLITICIAN. Peterkingiron (talk) 15:20, 18 June 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, Mark Arsten (talk) 18:06, 20 June 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.