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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) Regards, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga (talk • mail) 11:58, 6 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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WP:BLP, based entirely on primary sources with no evidence of reliable source coverage provided at all, of a person notable primarily as the deputy commissioner of a Canadian territory. This is not a role that hands a person an automatic WP:NPOL freebie; it's a role that would be enough if he could be reliably sourced over WP:GNG for it, but not one that automatically guarantees him an article or an exemption from having to pass GNG just because he exists. While some (but not all) of his predecessors do have articles, all of them have other notability claims besides this alone, such as having served in the territorial legislature or going on to get appointed as the actual commissioner -- nobody else has an article if "deputy commissioner" is the only notability claim they have. Bearcat (talk) 15:06, 31 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep - have expanded article - Polar Medal (Canada) recipient and subject of a speech in Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories. PamD 16:50, 31 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 19:15, 31 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 19:15, 31 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep He served as Interim Commissioner of the Northwest Territories for nearly a year which suggests he meets WP:NPOL as having held "sub-national (statewide/provincewide) office". He has also received the Polar Medal, which may suggest passage of WP:ANYBIO for having received a "well-known and significant award or honor" AusLondonder (talk) 15:10, 1 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep. The article has been expanded enough to establish notability overall, and WP:NPOL has been established as clarified by AusLondoner. (Also I noticed that the original prod was placed on the article less than an hour following its creation; I can't help but feel there was a bit of WP:BITE going on here.) - The Bushranger _{One ping only} 00:24, 3 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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