The result was delete. Liz Read! Talk! 20:51, 5 November 2022 (UTC)
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WP:BLP of a person notable only as an unelected candidate for political office at the municipal level. As always, non-winning election candidates do not get Wikipedia articles just for standing as candidates -- the notability test for politicians is holding a notable political office, not just running for one, and candidates normally get articles only if they can demonstrate that they already had preexisting notability for other reasons that would already have gotten them an article anyway.
The primary attempt at prior notability here, however, is that she once filed a human rights complaint against the city police, which is referenced to a single source rather than the significant volume of
WP:GNG-worthy media coverage it would take to make somebody encyclopedically notable on that basis, so it doesn't constitute a notability claim that would pass the
ten year test for enduring significance -- and that, further, is the only reliably-sourced thing here at all, since even her unsuccessful election campaigns are sourced to blogs and YouTube videos rather than reliable source media coverage.
(Full disclosure, I've also had to strip an extremely negative claim from the article on the grounds that it was also improperly sourced -- it was referenced solely to a crime blogger's personal WordPress rather than any evidence of media coverage about it, and appeared to be here solely to sneak the subject's pre-transition deadname under the radar since you had to search for that, not "Angela", to find the entry. But even that isn't of any enduring encyclopedic significance, so it violates
WP:PERP and doesn't secure the preexisting notability of an unelected political candidate either.)
So TLDR, nothing here is "inherently" notable at all, and the sourcing isn't cutting it in terms of GNG.
Bearcat (
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21:04, 29 October 2022 (UTC)
The result was delete. Liz Read! Talk! 20:51, 5 November 2022 (UTC)
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WP:BLP of a person notable only as an unelected candidate for political office at the municipal level. As always, non-winning election candidates do not get Wikipedia articles just for standing as candidates -- the notability test for politicians is holding a notable political office, not just running for one, and candidates normally get articles only if they can demonstrate that they already had preexisting notability for other reasons that would already have gotten them an article anyway.
The primary attempt at prior notability here, however, is that she once filed a human rights complaint against the city police, which is referenced to a single source rather than the significant volume of
WP:GNG-worthy media coverage it would take to make somebody encyclopedically notable on that basis, so it doesn't constitute a notability claim that would pass the
ten year test for enduring significance -- and that, further, is the only reliably-sourced thing here at all, since even her unsuccessful election campaigns are sourced to blogs and YouTube videos rather than reliable source media coverage.
(Full disclosure, I've also had to strip an extremely negative claim from the article on the grounds that it was also improperly sourced -- it was referenced solely to a crime blogger's personal WordPress rather than any evidence of media coverage about it, and appeared to be here solely to sneak the subject's pre-transition deadname under the radar since you had to search for that, not "Angela", to find the entry. But even that isn't of any enduring encyclopedic significance, so it violates
WP:PERP and doesn't secure the preexisting notability of an unelected political candidate either.)
So TLDR, nothing here is "inherently" notable at all, and the sourcing isn't cutting it in terms of GNG.
Bearcat (
talk)
21:04, 29 October 2022 (UTC)