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André Walker

Subject non-notable per WP:BIO, with any notability asserted stemming primarily from trying and seemingly often failing to be elected to various committees of varying importance (e.g. local councils, student representative bodies) and from being a presenter on QVC. Suspect this may have started out as a vanity page, although as it was seemingly transwikied from Wiktionary it's difficult to say with certainty. Badgerpatrol 13:17, 9 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. Notable becuase of his media profile. The stuff about committees he did and didn't get elected to would not satsify WP:BIO by itself, when taken in addition to his media appearances as a presenter, I think he is notable enough. Dorange 23:46, 9 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete He has not run for a legislative seat; his claimed N is on minor party committees. Nor has he won office at the NUS. He's quoted once in the BBC article. He is cohost of a political show on internet TV. The show was mentioned in one BBC report. DGG 00:56, 10 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Has hosted and appeared on shows of notable media broadcasters. Boboba 02:38, 10 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Are you the creator of the page by any chance? I notice that your only contribs since September 2006 (13 contributions to Wikipedia overall) are to Andre Walker (2 edits) his brother Dominic Walker (6 edits, including page creation) 4 to your user page and 1 to this AfD discussion. If by any chance you are either Andre or Dominic, or a close associate of theirs, it would be very useful if you could clarify that here and make other editors aware of it. It is up to the community to decide whether a Manchester Student Television station formerly run by the University of Salford and being a presenter flogging cheap jewellery on a shopping channel confer notability. I would say that they do not. Badgerpatrol 09:56, 10 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not the original author of this article, but as you've noted I have edited it and I did create a page about Andre's brother Dominic Walker. I have met both Andre and Dominic in real life through a mutual friend, though I don't know them very well. I may not have edited Wikipedia very much, but I am an avid reader of the encyclopaedia and it strikes me that, while they're both fairly minor celebrities, Andre and Dominic's public profiles are as notable as those of many other people with pages on Wikipedia. They seemed like decent candidates for articles to me and, since I knew bit about them, I was motivated to expand Andre's article a bit and create one on Dominic. I know that often only established editors views are taken into account in deletion debates. I've expressed my view, though. The closing admin may choose to take it into account or ignore it as they feel appropriate. Boboba 10:58, 10 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Delete as nominator. Badgerpatrol 09:56, 10 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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 *'''Keep'''. Has hosted and appeared on shows of notable media broadcasters. [[User:Boboba|Boboba]] 02:38, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
 :Are you the creator of the page by any chance? I notice that your only contribs since September 2006 (13 contributions to Wikipedia overall) are to Andre Walker (2 edits) his brother Dominic Walker (6 edits, including page creation) 4 to your user page and 1 to this AfD discussion. If by any chance you are either Andre or Dominic, or a close associate of theirs, it would be very useful if you could clarify that here and make other editors aware of it. It is up to the community to decide whether a Manchester Student Television station formerly run by the University of Salford and being a presenter flogging cheap jewellery on a shopping channel confer notability. I would say that they do not. [[User:Badgerpatrol|Badgerpatrol]] 09:56, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
-:: I'm not the original author of this article, but as you've noted I have edited it and I did create a page about Andre's brother Dominic Walker. I have met both Andre and Dominic in real life through a mutual friend, though I don't know them very well. I may not have edited Wikipedia very much, but I am an avid reader of the encyclopaedia and it strikes me that, while they're both fairly minor celebrities, Andre and Dominic's public profile is as notable as that of many other people with pages on Wikipedia. They seemed like decent candidates for articles to me and, since I knew bit about them, I was motivated to expand Andre's article a bit and create one on Dominic. I know that often only established editors views are taken into account in deletion debates. I've expressed my view, though. The closing admin may choose to take it into account or ignore it as they feel appropriate. [[User:Boboba|Boboba]] 10:58, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
+:: I'm not the original author of this article, but as you've noted I have edited it and I did create a page about Andre's brother Dominic Walker. I have met both Andre and Dominic in real life through a mutual friend, though I don't know them very well. I may not have edited Wikipedia very much, but I am an avid reader of the encyclopaedia and it strikes me that, while they're both fairly minor celebrities, Andre and Dominic's public profiles are as notable as those of many other people with pages on Wikipedia. They seemed like decent candidates for articles to me and, since I knew bit about them, I was motivated to expand Andre's article a bit and create one on Dominic. I know that often only established editors views are taken into account in deletion debates. I've expressed my view, though. The closing admin may choose to take it into account or ignore it as they feel appropriate. [[User:Boboba|Boboba]] 10:58, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
 *'''Delete''' as nominator. [[User:Badgerpatrol|Badgerpatrol]] 09:56, 10 May 2007 (UTC)