The result was delete. - Mailer D iablo 14:11, 13 October 2006 (UTC) reply
This article I feel is non-notable. Julien Foster has achieved nothing more than standing as a candidate in a general election and being a lawyer. Both of these don't really warrant him a page. In additon, the page was created by Julien Foster himself, which does suggest it is merely a vainity page. The last line of the article reads "He is a grandson of Roberto Weiss, a great great nephew of Sir Horace Hector Hearne and a great great nephew of Sadie Bonnell"; as well as this being fairly irrelevant, Julien Foster has created two of these pages himself, and this again makes me think it is a vainity page. If he ever becomes an MP then the page of course should be remade, but I think at the moment he's not notable. Berks105 21:47, 6 October 2006 (UTC) reply
The article is an autobiography, written by Julien Foster ( talk · contribs). The references aren't references at all, and it has clearly been constructed from M. Foster's own firsthand knowledge of xyrself. Searching, the only biographies of this person that I can find are other autobiographies, also supplied directly from the subject, that are word-for-word identical to this one.
When it comes to the Wikipedia:Criteria for inclusion of biographies, the subject does not satisfy any of them anyway. The subject is a barrister, and an election candidate who didn't win. The appearances on radio programmes are clearly on the level of phone-in interviews. Notability is not inheritable, especially from one's grandfather or great-great uncle, and the notability by association is the only thing that the autobiographies have going as even claims of notability. Not that we can actually trust that this person is in fact related to whom xe claims to be related.
And that is the crux of the problem. There is nothing from which to verify the content of this article, including the claims of being a distant relative of notable people, except for other word-for-word identical autobiographies that the subject has had published elsewhere, in addition to submitting to Wikipedia. (The other autobiographies don't even mention the distant relatives, moreover.) Wikipedia:Autobiography#The_problem_with_autobiographies explains the problems with that. The subject is non-notable, and nothing in the article is verifiable except for the information that we already have in Leyton and Wanstead#Elections. That row in a table, in that article, is exactly how much coverage of this person that Wikipedia should have. Delete. Uncle G 00:08, 7 October 2006 (UTC) reply
The result was delete. - Mailer D iablo 14:11, 13 October 2006 (UTC) reply
This article I feel is non-notable. Julien Foster has achieved nothing more than standing as a candidate in a general election and being a lawyer. Both of these don't really warrant him a page. In additon, the page was created by Julien Foster himself, which does suggest it is merely a vainity page. The last line of the article reads "He is a grandson of Roberto Weiss, a great great nephew of Sir Horace Hector Hearne and a great great nephew of Sadie Bonnell"; as well as this being fairly irrelevant, Julien Foster has created two of these pages himself, and this again makes me think it is a vainity page. If he ever becomes an MP then the page of course should be remade, but I think at the moment he's not notable. Berks105 21:47, 6 October 2006 (UTC) reply
The article is an autobiography, written by Julien Foster ( talk · contribs). The references aren't references at all, and it has clearly been constructed from M. Foster's own firsthand knowledge of xyrself. Searching, the only biographies of this person that I can find are other autobiographies, also supplied directly from the subject, that are word-for-word identical to this one.
When it comes to the Wikipedia:Criteria for inclusion of biographies, the subject does not satisfy any of them anyway. The subject is a barrister, and an election candidate who didn't win. The appearances on radio programmes are clearly on the level of phone-in interviews. Notability is not inheritable, especially from one's grandfather or great-great uncle, and the notability by association is the only thing that the autobiographies have going as even claims of notability. Not that we can actually trust that this person is in fact related to whom xe claims to be related.
And that is the crux of the problem. There is nothing from which to verify the content of this article, including the claims of being a distant relative of notable people, except for other word-for-word identical autobiographies that the subject has had published elsewhere, in addition to submitting to Wikipedia. (The other autobiographies don't even mention the distant relatives, moreover.) Wikipedia:Autobiography#The_problem_with_autobiographies explains the problems with that. The subject is non-notable, and nothing in the article is verifiable except for the information that we already have in Leyton and Wanstead#Elections. That row in a table, in that article, is exactly how much coverage of this person that Wikipedia should have. Delete. Uncle G 00:08, 7 October 2006 (UTC) reply