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The result was delete and redirect to United States House of Representatives elections, 2018#Louisiana. Sandstein 09:04, 6 December 2017 (UTC)
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Non-notable political candidate. Fails WP:POLITICIAN. Sources present do not establish WP:GNG. – Muboshgu ( talk) 04:55, 29 November 2017 (UTC)
- Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. – Muboshgu ( talk) 04:55, 29 November 2017 (UTC)
- Note: This debate has been included in the list of Louisiana-related deletion discussions. – Muboshgu ( talk) 04:55, 29 November 2017 (UTC)
- Keep - This candidate is challenging an incumbent of the same party in Louisiana. I think the material provided was neutral, fact-oriented, and provides value. Windsor2013 ( talk) 06:09, 29 November 2017 (UTC)
- Delete Fails WP:POLITICIAN as an unelected political candidate. The comment above by Windsor2013 ignores guidelines and previous consensus. We do not host campaign brochures posing as encyclopedia articles. If someone wants to write a neutral article about that 2018 political race, giving neutral coverage to all candidates, then a redirect can be created. If he wins, a biography can be written then. He is not now notable. Cullen328 Let's discuss it 06:24, 29 November 2017 (UTC)
- Delete: as Cullen328 points out, at the very least it's too soon. ~dom Kaos~ ( talk) 10:49, 29 November 2017 (UTC)
- 'Redirect to United States House of Representatives elections, 2018#Louisiana, the election in question, as is generally done for political candidates who aren't/aren't yet successful and have no other notability. - The Bushranger One ping only 13:00, 29 November 2017 (UTC)
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- Delete Fails WP:POLITICIAN as an unelected political candidate. -- Enos733 ( talk) 17:34, 30 November 2017 (UTC)
- Delete. Being an as yet non-winning candidate in a future election is not a claim of notability that gets a person into Wikipedia — a person has to win the election, not just run in it, to pass WP:NPOL — and challenging an incumbent of the same party is not a notability boost, especially in a state which has "jungle primaries" in which multiple candidates of the same party routinely appear on the same ballot. But there's no evidence of preexisting notability for any other reason being shown here, and no evidence that his media coverage has blown up to the point that we would have to consider his candidacy a special "more notable than the norm" case like Christine O'Donnell or Jon Ossoff. Bearcat ( talk) 22:15, 30 November 2017 (UTC)
- Redirect to United States House of Representatives elections, 2018#Louisiana, insufficient indication of notability to support an independent article. E.M.Gregory ( talk) 14:34, 1 December 2017 (UTC)
- Delete Wikipedia is not a place for people to put up campaign brochures. John Pack Lambert ( talk) 03:03, 4 December 2017 (UTC)
- Delete As noted by others, you need to win an election to be notable. Suggest moving the article into the draft space. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 20:37, 4 December 2017 (UTC)
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