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The result was delete. Tone 20:58, 17 September 2018 (UTC) reply

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An article on a political candidate for state office; the article is extremely promotional. Insufficient coverage; refs include things like a 40 under 40 in Knoxville feature, republished press releases, and mundane announcements. power~enwiki ( π, ν) 21:40, 10 September 2018 (UTC) reply

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Tennessee-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU ^(T) 23:06, 10 September 2018 (UTC) reply

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Women-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU ^(T) 23:07, 10 September 2018 (UTC) reply

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU ^(T) 23:07, 10 September 2018 (UTC) reply

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• Delete -- I see no independent WP:RS. Agree that it appears to be WP:PROMO. -- David Tornheim ( talk) 00:11, 11 September 2018 (UTC) reply
• Delete Per WP:NPOL and no other claims to notability. Article also seems to be little more than a campaign brochure. AusLondonder ( talk) 02:40, 11 September 2018 (UTC) reply
• Delete. As always, people do not get Wikipedia articles just for being candidates in elections they haven't won yet — but this makes no credible claim that she has preexisting notability for other reasons besides the candidacy, cites nowhere near enough reliable source coverage to credibly support the notion that her candidacy is somehow more notable than most other people's candidacies, and is indeed written far more like a campaign brochure than a neutral or objective encyclopedia article. Bearcat ( talk) 16:01, 11 September 2018 (UTC) reply
• Delete Per WP:NPOL regarding candidates. My colleagues, esp. Bearcat have taken the words right out of my mouth on this one. Bkissin ( talk) 16:24, 11 September 2018 (UTC) reply
• Delete per WP:NPOL. SportingFlyer talk 06:38, 12 September 2018 (UTC) reply
• Delete Attorney running for a seat in the state senate. delete WP:MILL unelected candidate, fails WP:NPOL. E.M.Gregory ( talk) 23:40, 12 September 2018 (UTC) reply

This article has been flagged for speedy deletion under section G11, G11 is defined as Unambiguous advertising or promotion,

This article was not intended to be promotional in nature but merely informative to the public, the author believes that this article covers a "Major local political figures who have received significant press coverage", in accordance with policies defined by [ |Wikipedia Guidelines for Notability, Politicians and judges] This article was written with intent to provide critical and important public information about a person involved in a key state political race. The author believes this person to meet these criteria. There are many news articles which qualify as reliable source including [ Knoxville News Sentinel] [ Knoxville News Sentinel article 2] [ Knoxville Mercury] [ Tennessee Journal] [ Washington Times] Jamie Ballinger is also a significant figure of state political importance because of the fact that she is a female candidate running for a state legislature in a state with less than 15% female representation. This importance is also recognized and cited by [ Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee ] [ for Tennessee's future]. Please remove the speedy deletion request and give me [ The author] 24 - 48 hours hours to make the article a more objective encyclopedia article. I have only done a few article's and I am still learning how to make great Wikipedia articles. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Greggorywiley ( talk • contribs) 17:16, 13 September 2018 (UTC) reply

Firstly, the "major local political figures" criterion, NPOL #2, is for officeholders at the municipal level of office, such as mayors and city councillors. It does not apply to not yet elected candiates for any office — it is for holders of important local political offices at the city or county levels, and nobody else. Secondly, providing information about as yet unelected candidates, who are not already notable for some other reason besides being candidates, is not Wikipedia's role — our job is to maintain articles about holders of important political offices, not everybody who ever stood as a candidate for one. And thirdly, whether you "intended" this to be promotional or not, the writing tone that you used is very promotional and not even remotely encyclopedic. Bearcat ( talk) 20:50, 14 September 2018 (UTC) reply

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