Persons directly and voluntarily engaged in public life also qualify if they are clearly identified with advocacy groups and exercise major influence over those:

• A recent major candidate for public office, e.g. Bob Rae, even if they have not been in an elected post for years, need not be the sole or primary subject of mass media reports to qualify
• Extremely active lobbyists or activist?s with very significant achievements, formal posts in NGOs who either influence events or comment on events, e.g. Dan King, Elizabeth May before she became GPC Leader
• A current (not former) political party leader e.g. Frank De Jong, deputy leader? e.g. Victoria Serda, or other primary spokesperson? for any political party; Often in small parties changes in leadership mean drastic changes in policy so tracking these changes can be important
• A current chief administrative or chief executive officer of a party, including Presidents, Chairs, or national campaign manager?s, who make major hiring and firing and financial decisions for it, e.g. Ron Yurick, George Read?.

Judgement should be exercised in cases of extremely obscure or ideological parties that may not deserve any exposure. Any articles on these parties or their major figures may be hard to reliably update, and editorial balance hard to achieve to cover all such parties or fringe groups.

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These marginal public figures volunteered for public exposure and strongly influence public interest decisions. While there should not be inordinate coverage of them, the fact is, there's really no other forum to find out what they're up to. As it stands the existing policy is arbitrary and not even enforced. What was above was at least something other than "whatever a single person finds annoying", which is the present non-standard.