Wikipedia:articles For Deletion Derrick Michael Reid

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The result was delete. Lankiveil ^{(
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Derrick michael reid

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Biography of a non-notable person. I am unable to find reliable, independent sources that discuss the subject in detail. - Mr X 14:48, 26 September 2015 (UTC) reply

Strong delete. Autobiographical, no coverage in reliable sources. The assertion that he's running for President probably tips this out of A7, and it's no such an overt campaign flyer that it's G11. So, it can't be speedied, but I don't see how it will stand up to AfD. — C.Fred ( talk) 14:55, 26 September 2015 (UTC) reply

Note: This debate has been included in the list of California-related deletion discussions. Bharatiya29 ( talk) 15:42, 26 September 2015 (UTC) reply

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Bharatiya29 ( talk) 15:42, 26 September 2015 (UTC) reply

The presidency of the United States is that rare campaign that's so extensively covered by so many reliable sources that even though non-winning candidates don't pass WP:NPOL in principle, a political party's nominee for president has a very good chance of getting past WP:GNG anyway — so he might certainly qualify for a Wikipedia article if he wins the Libertarian Party nomination. But a person definitely doesn't get a Wikipedia article just for being a candidate in the party's internal primary race, if you can't make a credible and properly sourced claim of preexisting notability independently of that fact. And that definitely hasn't been shown here, as this contains nothing of substance and is parked entirely on primary sourced verification of his existence rather than reliable source coverage of anything about him. Delete, without prejudice against recreation if the Libertarians choose him as their official presidential candidate next year and the reliable source coverage shoots up because of that. Bearcat ( talk) 16:43, 26 September 2015 (UTC) reply
Delete. If he wins the nomination, he would merit a page, but absent that there seems to be little coverage of him to meet guidelines, as already stated. 331dot ( talk) 17:07, 26 September 2015 (UTC) reply
Procedural note. Article has been moved to Derrick Michael Reid. — C.Fred ( talk) 17:20, 26 September 2015 (UTC) reply
Delete based on current content. While becoming the Libertarian nominee would undoubtedly cause him to merit a Wikipedia page, he doesn't need to accomplish that to merit a Wikipedia page. He could potentially pass the general notability guideline by getting significant media coverage in reliable, independent sources, well before the nominee is determined. However, no such media coverage has been identified yet. -- Metropolitan90 (talk) 01:00, 28 September 2015 (UTC) reply
- Incidentally, the candidate/article creator wrote on his campaign site, "I created a simple wikipedia page. Lets see how long it takes them to delete it." [1] The answer should be "7 days"; a snow or speedy deletion is unnecessary given that the article is true and asserts notability -- it just doesn't establish notability yet. -- Metropolitan90 (talk) 01:05, 28 September 2015 (UTC) reply
Delete for now as I found nothing better than browser links and there is simply nothing to suggest improvement or even noticeable attention. SwisterTwister talk 22:42, 28 September 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.