Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ontario New Democratic Party leadership election, 1982
Firstly there is plentiful significant coverage to meet the main notability guideline, so that should not be in question. The articles also meet the Wikipedia:Notability (events) guideline due to firstly having a lasting and significant effect (the leaders leading the parties for many years and Bob Rae going on to be Premier of Ontario), secondly they received coverage at least nationally across Canada, so is not just local coverage, and thirdly is not just a short burst of coverage - for the 2009 election for instance the coverage lasted for over a year. As such these are definitely not the routine news reports that  talks about (writing about the 1982 election 33 years after the event also stretches my definition of NOTNEWS to breaking point). Wikipedia has long had this type of articles as can be seen in :Category:Leadership elections in Canada and I struggle to see how these New Democrat elections are any different to any of the others. Per  we consider all members of the Ontario Legislative Assembly to be notable so a leadership election for a major party in that assembly, that gets significant coverage should be notable. The list of elections cannot explain and provide the reasons and details about the elections that the reader wants and needs, rather than just an unexplained list of results, which individual articles can do. The articles could certainly be improved, but the Good Article nominee article - Scottish Labour Party leadership election, 2014 - shows how this can be done
— User:Davewild, 09:12, 6 April 2015 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:NOTNEWS||WP:POLITICIAN (Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not)