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The result was delete.
Kurykh (
talk) 06:09, 7 March 2017 (UTC)reply
This individual does not meet
WP:GNG for significant coverage in reliable sources. He doesn't meet
WP:POLITICIAN as a candidate for office who isn't in office. PROD removed by article creator. –
Muboshgu (
talk) 06:00, 27 February 2017 (UTC)reply
==individual does meet
WP:GNG criteria based on coverage in Atlanta Journal Constitution, primary newspaper for city of Atlanta, see ref. 3.~~
Delete. Local coverage of local elections always exists, so every candidate for any office could always claim to pass
WP:GNG if coverage of the election campaign itself were all it took. To get an as yet unelected candidate into Wikipedia before he's declared the winner of the election, what you need to show is one of two things: either (a) he was already notable enough for an article for some other reason before throwing his hat in the electoral ring, or (b) the coverage of his candidacy is exploding to
Christine O'Donnell proportions. But simply including a bibliography of his academic publications in the article is not what it takes to get him over
WP:ACADEMIC — it takes media coverage about his work as an academic, of which none has been shown here at all — and the amount of campaign coverage shown here is not demonstrating that his candidacy would somehow deserve special treatment over and above all the non-winning candidates in last year's election who didn't get articles for that fact in and of itself. Campaign coverage is
WP:ROUTINE, not notability-conferring in and of itself, because no candidate in any election ever fails to garner at least as much coverage as has been shown here — our guiding notability principle is
"what will people still need to know ten years from now?", not
"who happens to be in the news today?", so politicians get Wikipedia articles for winning election and holding office, not just for running in an election.
Bearcat (
talk) 22:00, 6 March 2017 (UTC)reply
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