Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lionel Blackman
to Esher and Walton (UK Parliament constituency). Blackman seems far less notable than is being suggested above. A search of Google News archives shows that almost all of the references to "Lionel Blackman" are about a Florida psychiatrist. Most of the few stories I come up with about the British solicitor are passing references to him as the lawyer defending a former soldier in a case that became a minor ''cause celebre'' http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,575452,00.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/surrey/8421485.stm http://www.thisissurreytoday.co.uk/news/Celebs-support-ex-soldier-s-case/article-1529019-detail/article.html. The sources provided in the article right now are little more than press releases, and overall I'm just not seeing "significant coverage" of Blackman. Per a recent consensus we've revised the guidelines at  to say "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." I don't think Blackman has attained sufficient notability for an article, and since he is only a candidate a redirect to Esher and Walton (UK Parliament constituency) (or to a specific article on that local election if we ever get it) seems the appropriate choice right now. As a side note, and not to be all |crystal ballish, given the recent voting trends in this constituency it seems almost impossible that Blackman will win this election
— User:Bigtimepeace, 18:17, 13 February 2010 (UTC)
Stance: merge
Cited policy: WP:POLITICIAN||WP:CRYSTAL (Wikipedia:Notability)