Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Andrew Hurst


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.  

The result was no consensus. &mdash; Nearly Headless Nick   {C}  11:11, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

Andrew Hurst

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Failed congressional candidate notable only for having run (unsuccessfully) for Congress Lincolnite 17:20, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
 *  Neutral Keep Nominator should have informed primary editors of AfD. Would like to see better references. --Kevin Murray 21:53, 10 February 2007 (UTC) I'll go with DGG on this,trusting with good faith that there are precedents. At over 400 seats contested very two years, this is a lot of people, but of course they need to qualify with bona fide sources.  --Kevin Murray 06:08, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete failed political candidate with no other claim to notability made. Nuttah68 09:40, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep. Failed major national party candidates for congress have always been judged notable. Thee are only 400 a year or so, and being one of the top 500 politicians in the US (counting governors etc) is certainly notable. DGG 02:22, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Quick question: in what way do failed congressional candidates like Andrew Hurst qualify as "one of the top 500 politicians in the US" - he's never even been elected to a school board! Lincolnite 11:37, 12 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Merge or Delete. These articles get set up prior to elections then basically gather dust afterwards.  I suggest that we should have a better way of dealing with them.  For example, unless the loser runs in at least two races, his basic information should get merged into an article about the race itself (if one exists), or, in a case like this, into the section on the election in the Virginia's 11th congressional district article .-- Kubigula (talk) 00:27, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep. Andrew Hurst is active in the DC and national legal community, in the 2008 presidential election, and in state and local politics. It is these important contributions that made his campaign as successful as it was. In other words, it is not the campaign that made him notable, it was his notability that made his campaign. Acham 03:35, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
 * But being the Young Lawyer Section representative to the Bar Association of the District of Columbia does not make one notable enough to have one's own page on Wikipedia. Neither does being awarded the BADC's 2005 Young Lawyer of the Year award... Lincolnite 09:22, 13 February 2007 (UTC).
 * You seem to be caught up in cherry picking single accomplishments. First, the Young Lawyer award is unique: it's a hotly competitive award in a town where 1 in 12 people is a lawyer (PDF), where lawyers come from around the world to study and practice, and where most of the lawyers have national ambitions. It's like being Paris's best young fashion designer or New York's best young financial planner. If you Google DC Young Lawyer for past winners you get partners in the world's biggest firms and executive directors of major charities and corporations, and the current mayor, the youngest in DC history. Moving on to Hurst's entire body of legal work, it includes cases of international interest, significant pro bono work, and novel legal theory. He has led statewide aspects of national political campaigns. He is active in his community and sought to run again. He exhausted the incumbent’s $3 million war chest that Davis was saving for a Senate bid in 2008, and Hurst received more votes than any challenger in the State in 2006.  This is no long shot Green Party candidate.Acham 22:01, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.