Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lansdowne (electoral district)
Yes, the article does need some improvement, but it's entirely proper and appropriate for an electoral district to have a standalone article that lists the (''inherently'' notable per ) people who held it — and conversely, it's entirely ''improper'' and ''inappropriate'' for the nominator to have preemptively wiped out the member table, replacing it with a partial analysis of the provincewide results in one specific election. 1941 Manitoba general election is the place for what the nominator tried to do here, while ''this'' article is the place to list all of the MLAs who held this seat across all of the elections in which it was contested. (That is, ''this'' article ''does not care'' about election results in Arthur or Beautiful Plains or Birtle or Dauphin or Emerson in 1941 — the article ''about the 1941 election'' cares about that, and indeed already ''has'' that, while ''this'' article only cares who specifically held ''Lansdowne''.)This is just an old article that was created 15 years ago under old content standards — but election coverage always exists in the media, so the sources most certainly ''do'' exist to get this back up to contemporary content standards. Notability is based on the |existence of appropriate sources, not on whether they're all already in the article or not — if the proper sources exist, then we do not delete the article just for not already being in better shape than it is. And the fact that you can't find sources on ''Google'' isn't proof that the sources don't exist, either: would you really ''expect'' media coverage from the 1880s to the 1950s to have been published on the ''web''? We have to dig into ''archives'' to find media coverage that far back, not Google. And, in fact, in some cases we can simply pull over sources that are sometimes ''already'' present in the MLAs' ''biographies
— User:Bearcat, 14:07, 2 December 2019 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:NPOL||WP:EXIST (Wikipedia:Notability)