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This article fails
WP:GNG and
WP:NPOL. Quinn, who is a Libertarian, lacked significant press coverage and has most likely never held political office. He received 1.46% of the vote and reportedly 0.6% of the vote in
2014 and
2018, respectively.
Walk Like an Egyptian (
talk)
21:55, 31 October 2018 (UTC); edited 09:08, 8 November 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete. People do not get Wikipedia articles just for being candidates in elections they have not yet won — no, not even at the gubernatorial level. To qualify for an article, he would need to (a) win the election, (b) already have a strong claim to preexisting notability for other reasons, besides the candidacy itself, that would already have gotten him an article on those grounds anyway, or (c) receive so much more coverage than most other candidates across the United States are also getting that there would be credible grounds to claim his candidacy as a special case over and above most other people's candidacies. But none of those things are shown here at all — and the fact that a bit of campaign coverage exists is not a free
WP:GNG pass that exempts a candidate from having to pass NPOL just because of that campaign coverage's existence, because every candidate always gets some campaign coverage, so every candidate would always get that free pass and NPOL would automatically be gutted as having no applicability at all anymore.
Bearcat (
talk)
22:38, 3 November 2018 (UTC)reply
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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's
talk page or in a
deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.
This article fails
WP:GNG and
WP:NPOL. Quinn, who is a Libertarian, lacked significant press coverage and has most likely never held political office. He received 1.46% of the vote and reportedly 0.6% of the vote in
2014 and
2018, respectively.
Walk Like an Egyptian (
talk)
21:55, 31 October 2018 (UTC); edited 09:08, 8 November 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete. People do not get Wikipedia articles just for being candidates in elections they have not yet won — no, not even at the gubernatorial level. To qualify for an article, he would need to (a) win the election, (b) already have a strong claim to preexisting notability for other reasons, besides the candidacy itself, that would already have gotten him an article on those grounds anyway, or (c) receive so much more coverage than most other candidates across the United States are also getting that there would be credible grounds to claim his candidacy as a special case over and above most other people's candidacies. But none of those things are shown here at all — and the fact that a bit of campaign coverage exists is not a free
WP:GNG pass that exempts a candidate from having to pass NPOL just because of that campaign coverage's existence, because every candidate always gets some campaign coverage, so every candidate would always get that free pass and NPOL would automatically be gutted as having no applicability at all anymore.
Bearcat (
talk)
22:38, 3 November 2018 (UTC)reply
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