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Eleven biographies of people notable only as non-winning third party candidates for political office in
Wisconsin between 50 and 70 years ago. As always, unelected candidates for office do not get Wikipedia articles just for being candidates — their names can certainly be mentioned in the results tables on the relevant election articles, but they don't get standalone biographies unless they can be sourced and substanced as notable for more than just having their name on a ballot in an election they didn't win. But in each of these cases, the sourcing is parked primarily on
The Political Graveyard and pro forma inclusion in a historical database of the election results, neither of which really counts at all toward meeting
WP:GNG — nine of the articles are sourced only to one or both of those sources, Uphoff adds her paid death notice as support for her date of death but nothing else that would help build an actual GNG claim, and Emerson adds one news article which just namechecks his existence but is primarily about the winner of the election rather than him. Which means none of them pass
WP:NPOL, and none of them are shown as notable enough for anything else to counterbalance that.
Bearcat (
talk) 22:52, 12 October 2016 (UTC)reply
Delete. As I mentioned in some of the individual AFDs, I believe that this group of people do not meat automatic inclusion under the
politician criteria and none reach, in my estimation, articles on their own merits for other reasons.
Dolotta (
talk) 01:57, 18 October 2016 (UTC)reply
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