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Per the significant evolution in Wikipedia's BLP policy that has taken place over the years, candidate lists are no longer allowed to contain any biographical information about any candidate who has not earned a full standalone article about them under any of Wikipedia's inclusion standards — and that's especially true about any candidate for whom the biographical sketch is either completely unsourced or reliant on primary sources like their own campaign website. Extremely brief details, such as "occupation" and "residence", may be noted in the list if they rely on reliable source coverage for that information, but no candidate is allowed to have a full-on mini-article embedded into the list anymore. If they haven't earned a full-on standalone WP:BLP under one of Wikipedia's inclusion rules, then they don't get a full-on biography merged into a compilation of biographies, either.
I acknowledge that some of the older candidate lists which were created in the early to mid 2000s, when Wikipedia's WP:BLP policies weren't nearly as strict as they are now, still exist in the old inappropriate "minibio" format — however, that's only because nobody has actually taken on the job of cleaning them up for compliance with the rules that stand today, and does not mean that you're allowed to follow that deprecated model in a new candidate list being created now. Bearcat ( talk) 20:04, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
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Per the significant evolution in Wikipedia's BLP policy that has taken place over the years, candidate lists are no longer allowed to contain any biographical information about any candidate who has not earned a full standalone article about them under any of Wikipedia's inclusion standards — and that's especially true about any candidate for whom the biographical sketch is either completely unsourced or reliant on primary sources like their own campaign website. Extremely brief details, such as "occupation" and "residence", may be noted in the list if they rely on reliable source coverage for that information, but no candidate is allowed to have a full-on mini-article embedded into the list anymore. If they haven't earned a full-on standalone WP:BLP under one of Wikipedia's inclusion rules, then they don't get a full-on biography merged into a compilation of biographies, either.
I acknowledge that some of the older candidate lists which were created in the early to mid 2000s, when Wikipedia's WP:BLP policies weren't nearly as strict as they are now, still exist in the old inappropriate "minibio" format — however, that's only because nobody has actually taken on the job of cleaning them up for compliance with the rules that stand today, and does not mean that you're allowed to follow that deprecated model in a new candidate list being created now. Bearcat ( talk) 20:04, 10 December 2015 (UTC)