The result was keep. ( non-admin closure) BusterD ( talk) 01:11, 18 July 2012 (UTC) reply
I'm nominating this under the thinking that we can't have articles on every minister of health in every country, especially for articles of this short of a length. I'm not against the person being written about, I just think that if we allow this, then we're allowing one-liners on every ministers in or out of office. Please excuse me if I'm thinking about this incorrectly, as this is my first Afd submission, but I strongly disagree with allowing this article to stay in its current shape Kangaroo powah 03:30, 11 July 2012 (UTC) reply
- 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.(FOOTNOTE) This is a secondary criterion. People who satisfy this criterion will almost always satisfy the primary criterion. Biographers and historians will usually have already written about the past and present holders of major political offices. However, this criterion ensures that our coverage of major political offices, incorporating all of the present and past holders of that office, will be complete regardless.(END OF NOTE) This will also apply to those who have been elected but not yet sworn into such offices.
- Major local political figures who have received significant press coverage.
- 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".
In the case of candidates for political office who do not meet this guideline, the general rule is to redirect to an appropriate page covering the election or political office sought in lieu of deletion. Relevant material from the biographical article can be merged into the election or political office page if appropriate.
Far be it from me to argue that cabinet ministers shouldn't receive a free pass under this rule — they should. But a cabinet ministry is not an office, therefore a valid defense rationale should be based upon either GNG (the citation of multiple, independent, published sources), or upon the use of common sense that this is the sort of material that SHOULD be in an encyclopedia, WP:IAR. Carrite ( talk) 15:01, 11 July 2012 (UTC) reply