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Delete. Non-winning candidates for political office do not get Wikipedia articles just for being candidates, but there's no strong evidence here that he could be considered to have preexisting notability for other reasons independent of the candidacy — the sources which exist outside of the campaign context are all either video clips of him speaking about something other than himself, or glancing namechecks of his existence in articles about other people.
Bearcat (
talk)
00:42, 24 January 2019 (UTC)reply
Keep Let's set aside the losing candidacy and look at the career. He founded and is CEO of
No One Left Behind. His book got a very positive review in
Foreign Policy.(now added to page) He got
WP:SIGCOV a decade ago for helping the translator he worked with in Afghanistan get a visa to come to America: featured profiles on CNN and in People Magazine. He continues to be interviewed and to have speaking gigs related to
No One Left Behind, but the SIGCOV peaked long enough ago that it requires the use of new archive searches. (I added some to page.) Bio details can be expanded from the election coverage, which is reliable even though it does not contribute to notability.
E.M.Gregory (
talk)
01:29, 24 January 2019 (UTC)reply
Revisting because, well, when I am in a minority at AfD I like to step back and double check my opinion. So I went to the page asking myself, does this really pass the bar at
WP:SIGCOV. I clicked the first link, a bare URL linking to an essay in the
Wall Street Journal that I had not read before opining (I did clean up and source other parts of the page.) But the first link is a deeply moving 2015 essay about Zeller by
William McGurn. Paywalled, unfortunately. But I am confident in my opinion that this subject passes
WP:SIGCOV.
E.M.Gregory (
talk)
20:32, 29 January 2019 (UTC)reply
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Relisting comment: Closing this as delete would be defensible at this point, but I'd like to give people another week to evaluate the improvements made to the article during the AfD.
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RoySmith(talk)01:50, 31 January 2019 (UTC)reply
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