Talk:Pierre Bourque (journalist)

Speedy tag

Regarding the stated speedy rationale that article is mainly a criticism of a non-notable person that implies the subject inflates his own importance: it warrants mention that (a) Ottawa is a major metropolitan city whose past and present city councillors are notable enough, per WP:OUTCOMES#Politicians, to have Wikipedia articles, and (b) the nominator, under a prior identity, is the person responsible for adding most of the criticism "that implies the subject inflates his own importance", and on at least one previous occasion tried to have the article deleted on the grounds that it was a puff piece that didn't include the criticism that he now cites as the reason why it should be deleted (as well as another time when he removed almost all of the article's content and then tried to have it speedied as a blogger whose article made no other claim of notability at all — and another time when he replaced the article with a WP:COPYVIO commentary that was pure criticism of Bourque without even the slightest attempt at balance or fairness.) If there are BLP concerns, then they can be addressed by removing the problematic content — not by entirely deleting an article about a person who legitimately served in a notable political role.

This isn't a particularly good article, I won't argue with that — but the nominator has a history of targeting Bourque's article for personal reasons that fall very much outside the purview of Wikipedia policy and practice, and is directly responsible for a lot of the article's current problems. Bearcat (talk) 15:21, 21 May 2012 (UTC)

For the record, I asked the BLP noticeboard to come in and do a third party review of this article for neutrality and conformity with BLP, and a noticeboard volunteer has come in and quite rightly trimmed some of the problematic content. So hopefully that should resolve the matter to everyone's satisfaction. Bearcat (talk) 00:41, 22 May 2012 (UTC)

Warning

An anonymous IP tried to have this page speedy deleted today on the grounds that it's a "recreation of a previously deleted vanity page". This, accordingly, is an advisory warning to all editors: this rationale is a lie, as the only deletion this page has ever undergone was a temporary technical deletion as part of a change of the article's title — and the article as written is not a "vanity" page, but is a neutral encyclopedia article. It should also be noted that Ottawa is in the narrow class of global cities for which serving on the city council is an automatic WP:NPOL pass in and of itself — every person who has ever served on that body, without exception, is always eligible to have a Wikipedia article regardless of any individual editor's personal opinion of their "insignificance".

There is also significant evidence, judging from the IP's edit history, that they are the same person who has been waging a campaign for years to get this article deleted due to a personal vendetta against the subject, invariably under false pretenses and subterfuges such as adding unsourced criticism to the article so that he could then try to have it deleted as an attack page, or removing the fact that Bourque served on Ottawa City Council so that he could pretend it was deletable for not making a valid claim of notability at all. So I fully expect more of the same to happen in the future, which is why I'm opting to post this reminder that this page may not be speedied or prodded. Bearcat (talk) 22:42, 2 January 2015 (UTC)