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Speedy deletion nomination of Richard Freudenberg (politician)


A tag has been placed on Richard Freudenberg (politician) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a person or group of people, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please read more about what is generally accepted as notable.

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 * Hello. I'm afraid the page on Freudenberg will probably be deleted very soon; if the speedy deletion is declined it will certainly be deleted at WP:Articles for deletion. I suggest you read WP:POLITICIAN, where you will see that the examples you cited on the talk page (Kate Jones, etc.) all qualify because they were elected to a legislature. People who are merely candidates are generally not considered notable (unless they have some other claim to notability, which I'm not seeing in Freudenberg's case). Frickeg (talk) 11:45, 18 January 2015 (UTC)
 * I came here after deleting your article to explain why, but I see that it's already be done. I would add that coverage of the subject that is as a result of standing or campaigning does not of itself provide notability - by our definition of the word. Election to a state or national legislature does give notability. As to the other articles, we have a policy WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS. The existence of one article gives no excuse for the existence of another - and vice versa. We do sometimes catch up with things that have slipped past our patrollers this way, but those you quoted are definitely compliant with WP:POLITICIAN. Writing about an unelected candidate, you would have to show that they passed WP:BIO without using election connected publicity. BTW you said, "The page was specifically designed to bring further awareness to the politician in question in the upcoming elections" - I'm afraid that that comes under our restrictions on advertising and promotion - neither of which is allowed. Please see WP:SPAM. Peridon (talk) 13:51, 18 January 2015 (UTC)