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The result was keep. ( non-admin closure) Anarchyte ( work | talk) 09:59, 13 October 2016 (UTC) reply

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Delete. Poorly sourced WP:BLP of a person whose strongest claims of notability are being chief of staff to a U.S. senator and being a non-winning candidate in a party primary. Neither of these constitutes an WP:NPOL pass, so it's "pass WP:GNG on the sourcing or bust" -- but what we have for sourcing here is two local news articles about the primary race, two local news articles about non-notable distinctions like being named to his high school's alumni hall of fame or serving as interim athletic director of a university, a raw table of primary election results, a deadlink on a blog, and his own primary source website about himself. This is not a WP:GNG pass. First discussion was far too strongly influenced by the "notable because the campaign is currently underway" argument, which consensus has much more unequivocally quashed in the 2010s. Bearcat ( talk) 17:21, 28 September 2016 (UTC) reply

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. North America ¹⁰⁰⁰ 20:51, 28 September 2016 (UTC) reply

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Law-related deletion discussions. North America ¹⁰⁰⁰ 20:51, 28 September 2016 (UTC) reply

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Maine-related deletion discussions. North America ¹⁰⁰⁰ 20:51, 28 September 2016 (UTC) reply

Keep. The strongest claim to notability here may be that Abbott was the athletic director (not just with an interim status) of an NCAA Division I school. I see plenty of news coverage about Abbott to establish notability. Jweiss11 ( talk) 12:31, 6 October 2016 (UTC) reply

• Keep Not sure what the nom is talking about, hes a notable AD and politician. Enough sources for GNG pass. ~ EDDY ^{( talk/ contribs)}~ 14:29, 6 October 2016 (UTC) reply
• Keep  As per EDDY.  I just counted 14 inline citations, all retrieved in 2010, so this hardly constitutes a "poorly sourced WP:BLP".  Unscintillating ( talk) 02:22, 7 October 2016 (UTC) reply

Keep per Jweiss11 and Eddy, above, as a WP:GNG pass. Ejgreen77 ( talk) 03:06, 11 October 2016 (UTC) reply

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