Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ian G. Walker (2nd nomination)
This article was created, and survived its previous AfD, in 2006. Its subject seems first to have been adopted as a candidate for a political post (South Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner - though this is not mentioned in the article) in 2014. Being an unelected political candidate certainly does not make a non-notable person notable - but equally it does not make a notable person non-notable. |We should be bearing in mind that if the subject was notable (by today's standards) before 2014, he is still notable. Having said that, the prior notability of the subject is definitely not obvious. A lack of inline citations was allowable even in |BLPs in 2006, and the article does not appear to have been heavily edited in recent years - but that is no more than an argument to allow some limited time (a few days) for any interested editors to find and add reliable sources (preferably not local to Sheffield) that are now either archived or off-line. And even by the standards of 2006, the previous AfD does not look particularly safe - during the AfD, an IP editor introduced a whole load of unsubstantiated claims (including the already-mentioned OBE) which, taken together, look rather implausible and then largely seem to have been removed by another editor (whose editing patterns seem to have had some interesting correlations with those of the creator of the article) over a period of a few weeks following the closure of the AfD. None of this looks like a particularly solid case for deletion of the article - but it does not look like any kind of case for keeping it without decent proof of notability
— User:PWilkinson, 00:07, 10 April 2018 (UTC)
Stance: comment
Cited policy: WP:NTEMP||WP:BLP (Wikipedia:Notability)