Talk:Niki Ashton

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This article was nominated for deletion. Please review the prior discussions if you are considering re-nomination:

No consensus, April 11, 2006, see discussion.
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Tristin Hopper (3 April 2017). "The navy asks that you get your sailor-kissing facts straight: Highlights from government Wikipedia edits". National Post. Retrieved 3 April 2017. The Manitoba MP announced on March 7 that she was running for the leadership of the federal NDP. The night before the announcement, someone used a Parliament Hill computer to delete all mention of Ashton's 2011 wedding in Alexandroupoli, Greece. The edit didn't stick, however, and as of this writing was restored to the page.
(UPDATE: Ashton has since reported on Twitter that her marital status has changed.) {{cite news}}: no-break space character in |title= at position 100 (help)

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Discussion

This page has eventual value. It has just be created and it's already being nominated for deletion? I view that a page on a probable future politican should be kept. Deleting it now would delete prominate wikipedia knowledge. Voters or other Thompson citizens that want a balanced view on a major canidate would be let down! If she is elected as the MP for this area that would mean this article would have to be recreated. If you feel it is unimportant enought to be an article, at least merge it with something!

Sorry, but Wikipedia is not a crystal ball. --PhilipO 21:24, August 26, 2005 (UTC)

should it be merged with a wiki page on vanity articles? SaltyPig 21:25, 26 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

NO!!!!

A Northern Politican, who is notable, has an interesting amout of background information, and has became elected as NDP candidate for the ridding (now) would be a great Wikipedia article. Many articles are redirecting to this deleted link. Why shouldn't your Wikipedia reader be entitled to gain knowledge about someone every Wiki page redirects to? This is taughting Wikipedia readers with knowledge, by not giving them it! Wiki is not paper, it has more space, and can be a great referrence.

Canadianism 02:13, 19 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

-This article in my view is a stub and needs desperately to be worked on, however there is value here, especially as this is the person who took away a sitting MP's nomination when the party is so desperately low on seats.

SHOULD BE DELETED

I SEE NO REASON THAT THIS PAGE SHOULD BE KEPT IN THE WIKIPEDIA FOLD. NOW THAT THE ELECTION IS OVER AND SHE LOST, WHAT EXACTLY IS THE POINT? DOES THE FACT THAT SHE'S A "TRAVELER" MAKE THIS PAGE WORTHY OF STAYING IN AN ONLINE ENCYCLOPEDIA??? I'VE DONE TRAVELING OF MY OWN, BUT I'M NOT IMPORTANT ENOUGH TO BE IN WIKIPEDIA. CAN WE PLEASE COME TO A CONSENSUS ON THIS?

She is a rather newsworthy individual and Wikipedia is an encyclopedia of human knowledge. If this doesn't deserve its own article, merge it with Steve Aston. PS: ALL CAPITALS is annoying. Canadianism

RasputinAXP, you shouldn't redirect this page when the AfD voted no consensus, and thus, Keep. CanadianElection 10:04, 20 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

If you'd still like it merged, which I think it should be, you can add the '''{{mergeto|[NDP candidates, 2006 Canadian federal election}}''' tag to this page, and the '''{{mergefrom|Niki Ashton}}''' tag to the ndp candidates page.

Nikki Ashton won the election tonight - and it is spelt Nikki (not Niki). I see no reason for deletion. Should not someone mention the different languages that Nikki can speak? 07:12, 15 October 2008 (UTC)07:12, 15 October 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.77.37.31 (talk)

"Nikki"? Then why is it "Niki" on her own site? http://nikiashton.ndp.ca But as for deleting the article, she is a sitting member of the government, and possible future leader of the NDP, and so history has rendered the deletion suggestion obsolete. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.147.124.79 (talk) 18:44, 6 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Quoting critics

Mark Alfred has added a WP:BLPN notice about some quotes in the article. I don't object to using possibly-biased criticisms of Ashton, but: wouldn't WP:INTEXT require that the critics be identified in the text? For example 'She was viewed as "too young and too wooden."' ought to be "A Regina Leader Post columnist said she was "too young and too wooden".' Peter Gulutzan (talk) 15:47, 21 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Update: in response to the WP:BLPN notice, MPS1992 has deleted the quotes, effectively reverting this update by EncyclopediaUpdaticus. This is a better solution than my suggestion, so I regard this matter as ended. Peter Gulutzan (talk) 14:31, 24 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Gosh, I don't know how these journalists could have been so wrong. She must have come in last place for some other reason. EncyclopediaUpdaticus (talk) 11:50, 25 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Suggestion

Should the content of this news article be included here? I figure it'd be useful for the political views section to include how "Jewish groups" have criticised her for planning to join an event with Jeremy Corbyn. Twotwofourtysix (talk) 00:39, 4 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]