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McAdams was a former mayor of a city with less than 9,000 residents. No mayors of small cities meet
WP:NPOL.
He was a failed U.S. Senate Nominee; NPOL states that unelected candidates aren't guaranteed to be notable unless they pass GNG.
McAdams likely doesn't pass
WP:GNG as the only coverage surrounding him is
WP:MILL coverage on his failed Senate candidacy and
WP:ROUTINE coverage of the local events that happened in his two-year stunt as mayor.
Delete. Sitka AK is not large enough to hand its mayors an automatic presumption of notability just for existing as mayors, being an unsuccessful candidate in a political party's senate primary is not a notability freebie, and the article is not referenced even remotely close to well enough to make him more notable than most other smalltown mayors or unsuccessful primary candidates.
Bearcat (
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17:55, 1 January 2019 (UTC)reply
Comment: All above true. However, the US Senate election was "historical" in that it was the first successful write-in campaign, won by Murkowski. This may add significance to McAdams article, as readers may want more detail available when researching the event.
Dleit Ḵaa (
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08:02, 2 January 2019 (UTC)reply
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Redditaddict69: Sure, absolutely. And thanks for looking up those examples. Being a major party candidate in a notable election might, however. My only point was that point number 2 in the nomination above didn't quite cover the entirety of the situation.
Dleit Ḵaa (
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10:06, 2 January 2019 (UTC)reply
The only person who gains notability from Lisa Murkowski winning a write-in campaign is Lisa Murkowski — her victory does not hand special notability exemptions to everybody else in the election campaign, because notability is
not inherited by simple association with a more notable person.
Bearcat (
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13:49, 2 January 2019 (UTC)reply
Redirect to
2010 United States Senate election in Alaska as a usual and appropriate outcome for a candidate for the United States Senate. I believe that any verifiable information about the subject can be added to the page about the election, as there is not much about the Democratic party primary on the page currently. --
Enos733 (
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06:14, 3 January 2019 (UTC)reply
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