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The result was delete‎. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 23:24, 12 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

John Watson (New Zealand politician) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log | edits since nomination)

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Fails GNG, WP:POLITICIAN - average non-notable local politician TheLoyalOrder (talk) 23:23, 5 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Politicians and New Zealand. TheLoyalOrder (talk) 23:23, 5 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Snow keep The New Zealand politics task force agreed many years ago that three types of New Zealand politicians have inherent notability, namely legislative councillors, MPs, and Auckland councillors. The latter group was included because as their councillors represent way more people than any electorate MP does. Needless to say, Auckland councillors thus get a lot of media coverage. Schwede66 00:11, 6 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  ok but they don't actually get more coverage? I don't think Auckland local councillors should get some special carve out of GNG and WP:POLITICIAN. TheLoyalOrder (talk) 00:29, 6 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  could you point me to where the conversation was? TheLoyalOrder (talk) 00:33, 6 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Couldn't find any independent SIGCOV. Traumnovelle (talk) 21:46, 8 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete as this person does not seem particularly notable. I don't think NZ local politicians (regardless of where they are) should be considered automatically notable. They should still meet WP:GNG to get an article. This person does not appear to pass gng to me. That aside this article has some major WP:NPOV problems.David Palmer//cloventt ^(talk) 03:28, 12 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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