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The result was delete. MBisanz ^talk 02:30, 27 February 2018 (UTC) reply

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As an unsuccessful candidate for political office who is not otherwise notable, article subject fails WP:NPOL. Article should therefore be redirected to New York Comptroller election, 2006. Marquardtika ( talk) 22:45, 19 February 2018 (UTC) reply

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. MT Train ^Discuss 04:21, 20 February 2018 (UTC) reply

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of New York-related deletion discussions. MT Train ^Discuss 04:21, 20 February 2018 (UTC) reply

• Delete unelected candidates are generally not notable. Wikipedia is not Ballotpedia, and does not seek to be a comprehensive listing of political candidates. Instead we seek to be a truly international encyclopedia, where at least it is hoped that the people who serve in legislative bodies in Venezuela, Ghana, Nigeria, the United Kingdom, Russia, the United States and Tonga all are equally likely to have articles created on them. This is not quite the case, but we at least can agree that the absurd number of unelected candidates make it impossible to even consider including them. John Pack Lambert ( talk) 19:34, 20 February 2018 (UTC) reply
• Delete. County treasurer is an office that might get a person into Wikipedia if he could be sourced over WP:GNG for it, but is not one that guarantees him an article just because he exists — and being a non-winning candidate for office counts for nothing whatsoever. Bearcat ( talk) 00:12, 21 February 2018 (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.