Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dougald Lamont (2nd nomination)
Even as the ''nominator'' the first time, when his notability claim was limited to being a candidate in a leadership election he hadn't won yet, I entirely accept that now that he's won it the notability equation has ''changed''. We ''do'' accept the leadership of major political parties as a notability claim, regardless of whether the leader is actually part of the party's elected caucus yet or not, as long as the article can be sourced to enough |reliable source coverage to clear  rather than unsourced insider info or campaign brochures. The fact that it was an internal party election rather than a general election of the voting public is not the make or break condition at  — notability is not conditional on the ''kind'' of election involved (except in the isolated case of "everybody on city council gets a turn" mayoral rotations) or on the number of people who actually voted in it, but on whether or not it resulted in the subject ''holding'' a notable ''position''. This certainly still needs further work before it can be assessed as a ''good'' article, but it's already about as good as can be expected for a person who just won the leadership three days ago — further coverage will come, because this is a major party which holds seats in the Manitoba legislature and thus the media ''will'' pay more ''attention'' to its leader than they would to the leader of some minor fringe-wacko party.And as for the initial attempt to speedy it on G4 grounds, nominator is advised that subsequent recreation of a previously deleted article is ''not'' an automatic G4 in all instances — there are plenty of cases where a person's notability claim and sourceability has ''changed'' in the intervening time, such as a person who was only an election candidate at the time of the initial discussion but then ''won'' the election in the interim. G4 only applies if the notability claim and sourceability remain ''identical'' to the first time out, and ''not'' if circumstances have ''changed'' since the prior discussion
— User:Bearcat, 17:02, 24 October 2017 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:RS||WP:GNG||WP:NPOL (Wikipedia:Reliable sources)