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The result was Merge/redirect. Vanamonde ( talk) 10:50, 11 April 2017 (UTC) reply

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WP:BLP of a businessman, whose only substantive or reliably sourced indication of notability is a withdrawn candidacy in a gubernatorial primary. As always, if you cannot show or properly source that someone was already eligible for a Wikipedia article under some other inclusion criterion, then he does not get an article just for having been a candidate in a primary election -- a person has to win the general election to get an article if he wasn't already notable enough for an article. And campaign coverage does not in and of itself get him over WP:GNG, either, because campaign coverage always exists for all candidates for anything, so it falls under WP:ROUTINE unless it demonstrates the candidate as significantly more notable than the norm. For added bonus, there's a WP:COI issue here as the article has been directly edited by the subject himself. Bearcat ( talk) 20:45, 3 April 2017 (UTC) reply

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Bearcat ( talk) 20:46, 3 April 2017 (UTC) reply

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Virginia-related deletion discussions. Bearcat ( talk) 20:46, 3 April 2017 (UTC) reply

• Merge/redirect to Virginia gubernatorial election, 2017. Content should be preserved somewhere, although perhaps not in a standalone bio. The conflict-of-interest editing is not really an issue; when I saw that I speedily reverted to the pre-COI version, that that shouldn't really play a role in the AfD. Neutrality ^talk 21:30, 3 April 2017 (UTC) reply
• Delete Very little of what is in this article needs to be preserved. No claim to notability under WP:NPOL or WP:GNG. AusLondonder ( talk) 21:45, 5 April 2017 (UTC) reply
• Delete Redirect and selective merge from history, per Pater night below. Failed candidate for a nomination. Nothing more here to make him notable. TonyBallioni ( talk) 02:41, 11 April 2017 (UTC) reply
• Merge and redirect a brief addition to the "businessman" description at Virginia gubernatorial election, 2017. Even failed candidates can be valid search terms for the elections they run in, as long as there is RS coverage, which there is here. ---- Patar knight - ^chat/ _{contributions} 00:56, 11 April 2017 (UTC) reply

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