Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Billy McCue


 * 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   delete. Sorry, but neither being a candidate nor expectations of becoming notable are enough. Campaign manager, please read WP:BESTCOI. JohnCD (talk) 22:47, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

Billy McCue

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Appears to fail WP:BIO, sources found are 1 and 2 and 3, none of which actually establish notability VernoWhitney (talk) 17:44, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
 * delete, fails WP BIO and or N. No reliable sources listed. WildHorsesPulled (talk) 19:06, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete - fails being significantly notable. Note that the creator has only one edit, and it was to create this page. -RobertMel (talk) 23:14, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment Yeah, it's a WP:SPA with a WP:COI. I just tend to approach articles from a notability angle. VernoWhitney (talk) 23:50, 17 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Keep - Hi, I am David Dennis, Mr McCue's campaign manager. He is running for Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania, with a campaign web site at.

We recognize from a careful reading of your guidelines that political candidates get no special treatment on Wikipedia, just by being candidates.

We also recognize that at this point Mr McCue's situation does not satisfy notability guidelines because there are few impartial articles about his candidacy. However, he is linked to by sites listing current candidates for Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania. See for example and.

Because of the nature of his embryonic campaign, we would like to request a stay of execution for a couple of weeks, if possible, because we believe he will rapidly satisfy your criteria of two outside references. He is already scheduled for an interview by the staff of pa2010.com, and we anticipate that more will follow. Assuming the stay of execution is granted, and nobody else beats us to it, we will monitor the press and add citations to his entry as needed. If the present article is deleted, we will start a new one when we can satisfy your criteria.

Assuming you are not planning an immediate deletion of the article, we will improve it as a basis for further editing by the community.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

David Dennis (talk) 18:00, 18 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment - Yet to become notability is no rational to keep an article. Also, please read WP:COI, given your statue as the campaign manager of Billy McCue I was under the impression from what you wrote that you are attempting to build a notability on the individuals behalf so that the existance of such an article is justified. -RobertMel (talk) 18:16, 18 February 2010 (UTC)
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