Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Matthew McLauchlin
the reason we are here, and in the Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chris Tindal|other Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John Carmichael (politician)|candidate Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Peter Coy|aWikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tim Meehan|fWikipedia:Articles for deletion/Siobhán Coady|dWikipedia:Articles for deletion/Peter Conroy|s, is because Wikipedia does not have a clear policy to deal with these cases.  just doesn't clearly deal with these situations. It is a guideline and not a hard-and-fast regulation. The candidates are in the middle of their 15 minutes of fame. Right now they are big news (locally and in Canada), people want to know about them, and they want to tell people about themselves. However, the vast majority will disappear in a few weeks. Therefore, I support the Wikipedia talk:Centralized discussion/Legislative candidates#A mergist's solution|mergist's solution, like that of 23skidoo and p_b1999. Convert these articles to redirects to the list of small bios. If an article pops up, just revert to the redirect (don't let it linger for 5 days in afd
— User:Maclean25, 03:15, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
Stance: merge
Cited policy: WP:BIO (Wikipedia:Notability)