Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Brian D. Levine


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The result was delete. Daniel (talk) 00:12, 25 January 2021 (UTC)

Brian D. Levine

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Local politician in a small community. Had an abortive run for NJ governor, and failed state senate candidacy. Fails WP:NPOL.  Onel 5969  TT me 13:09, 17 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions.  Onel 5969  TT me 13:09, 17 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of New Jersey-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 13:15, 17 January 2021 (UTC)


 * Delete members of county boards of freeholders, as they are called in New Jersey, are not default notable, and the sourcing is just not enough to establish notability.John Pack Lambert (talk) 19:53, 19 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete. The county level of government is not an instant free pass over WP:NPOL, and the article is not sourced anywhere near well enough to suggest that Levine is a special case of greater notability than the norm for this level of significance. And no, having briefly been an unsuccessful candidate in a party primary for higher office, the rationale that was given by an anonymous IP for undoing the prior redirect to his county, is not a notability booster either: unsuccessful candidates for office are not permanently notable just for having been candidates, and are accepted as notable only if (a) they already had preexisting notability for other reasons independent of the candidacy, or (b) their candidacy can somehow be demonstrated and sourced as significantly more special than most other people's candidacies, in some way that would pass the ten year test for enduring impact — but nothing here passes either of those tests. Bearcat (talk) 16:04, 20 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep. I (the original creator of the article) have rewritten it to update it, and I think the updates establish notability under the general notability guideline. Levine is a current candidate for governor in the 2021 election.  He is in local news all the time.  His notability is not canceled by the fact that he has just lost his re-election campaign for Somerset County Commissioner.  I think the article also now represents an interesting case study in the complete shift of a government from one party to another in one three-year cycle. Neutron (talk) 20:31, 20 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Being a current candidate for governor does absolutely nothing to bolster his notability at all. People do not get Wikipedia articles just for being candidates per se, and that holds regardless of whether the election is in the past or currently under way. Being in his own county's local news also is not in and of itself enough to make him internationally notable, either: every county councillor in every county always gets into their local news, so getting into his own county's local news is not an achievement. At the county council level, the notability bar is not "a handful of local coverage exists" — it "there is a credible reason, such as nationalizing coverage, to treat him as much, much more special than the norm." Bearcat (talk) 21:42, 21 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Whatever. This bullshit is why I don't write new articles anymore. Neutron (talk) 20:05, 23 January 2021 (UTC)


 * Delete does not pass WP:NPOL. Mccapra (talk) 05:00, 24 January 2021 (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.