Talk:Clerk of Tynwald

This article was nominated for deletion on 18 October 2011 (UTC). The result of the discussion was keep.

Merge with Tynwald?[edit]

The article doesn't have much to say about the clerk. Perhaps it can be merged into Tynwald. --Regents Park (sniff out my socks) 18:57, 10 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Rescue notes[edit]

I am the person who placed the AfD tag on the article. Reasons I did do:

In general, the article as written strongly indicates that this position is insignificant to anyone not familiar with Isle of Man.
- "Clerk" and "Chief administrator" doesn't suggest to me a position of importance. Those two words together imply a gopher and paper-pusher who assists the actually important officials with menial tasks. It in no way implies the equivalent to Attorney General as The Bushranger (talk · contribs) suggested this position is. A dumb American like me doesn't associate clerk with importance.
- None of the officeholders listed have links or Wikipedia pages. Maybe it's simply a "no one's bothered to do it" situation, but Attorneys General always have articles about them. The lack of them here also suggests insignificance.
- "Office of 30 people" also implies insignificance. Even small towns have more than 30 employees. Isle of Man seems to have more to it than merely a small town.
- Tynwald sounds like the name of a town. So an article title "Clerk of Tynwald" would come across as a government official of a small town on the Isle of Man to someone unfamiliar, rather than being the parliament of the entire island.
In short, this article is written for those familiar with the government of Isle of Man, and that is not what Wikipedia is written for. D O N D E groovily Talk to me 12:38, 18 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

On the first point above, note that in your own governance, there is a post called Clerk of the United States House of Representatives. AllyD (talk) 16:20, 18 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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