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The result was Delete. Michig ( talk) 08:35, 30 November 2015 (UTC) reply

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This is a non-notable politician, whose only elected office is a local library board, the Buena Park Library District.

He is a perennial candidate, losing bids for Laguna Beach School Board in 2000, Irvine School Board in 2004, US Senate in 2010, Buena Park City Council in 2012 and 2014, and for United States Congress in 2014 (winning just 2.6% of the vote in a four-way race [1]).

The sources cited consist of a one-off interview on Fox News, the Buena Park Library District, a copy of a patent he holds, two private business web sites that don't mention him, his campaign web site and campaign YouTube, his business's web site, and generic listings of candidates. (Even his business's web site is linked simply to a private mailbox. OCNative ( talk) 10:05, 16 November 2015 (UTC) reply

Note: This debate has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. Musa  Talk  10:07, 16 November 2015 (UTC) reply

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Musa  Talk  10:08, 16 November 2015 (UTC) reply

• Delete Even if he had come in second in the house race that alone would not make him notable. He came in a distant 4th. Library Board members are virtually never notable for being such. There might be one person somewhere who did enough on a library board to warrant a Wikipedia article, but Salehi is not that person. John Pack Lambert ( talk) 04:00, 17 November 2015 (UTC) reply
• Delete NOT notable, period. Luigibob ( talk) 18:36, 19 November 2015 (UTC) reply

• Delete – No, a board member of a library that serves a population of 80,000 is not notable. And on top of it all, the article is painfully promotional (e.g, " Al Salehi represents a new generation of liberally minded, fiscally conservative non-partisan leaders. Locally grounded but internationally connected—a capitalist with a social conscience—Al is challenging his party to live up to its ideals of transparency and respect for individual freedom."). Graham ( talk) 02:49, 24 November 2015 (UTC) reply

As an aside, what is "his party" that he is challenging if he is indeed "non-partisan" (which he mentions twice)? Graham ( talk) 02:53, 24 November 2015 (UTC) reply

• Neither "library board" nor "unsuccessful candidate for Congress" is a claim of notability that gets a person into Wikipedia, and nothing else here is any stronger — and, as per the nominator, the sourcing here relies too strongly on primary sources and namechecks of his existence, and thus the article is not sourced well enough to claim WP:GNG. This reads very much like a campaign brochure rather than a real encyclopedia article, so I'd be very surprised if it wasn't created by his own campaign team. Delete. Bearcat ( talk) 17:06, 27 November 2015 (UTC) reply
• Delete - He's a trustee for a library and unsuccessful political candidate - subject is not notable. Meatsgains ( talk) 18:26, 27 November 2015 (UTC) reply

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.