Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dan Besse (2nd nomination)


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The result was delete. -- Patar knight - chat/contributions 08:12, 16 September 2018 (UTC)

Dan Besse
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City councilmember in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, who is currently running for the North Carolina Assembly. Does not pass WP:NPOL as an elected official and only has received local coverage of his campaigns. At this moment, there is not an obvious page about the 2018 legislative elections in North Carolina for a redirect. It would be acceptable to draftify the article until the outcome of the legislative election, as the subject is a current candidate. Enos733 (talk) 06:31, 8 September 2018 (UTC)
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 * Delete fails WP:GNG, coverage is either routine or primary. SportingFlyer  talk  06:42, 8 September 2018 (UTC)
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 * Delete. As yet unelected candidates in state legislative elections do not get Wikipedia articles just for being candidates, Winston-Salem is not a large or internationally prominent enough city to get him over NPOL #2 in lieu of his not having served in the state legislature yet, and the referencing here consists almost entirely of primary sources that are not valid support for notability at all. No prejudice against recreation on or after election day if he wins the seat, but nothing here qualifies him to already have an article today. Bearcat (talk) 18:06, 10 September 2018 (UTC)
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 * Delete – unelected candidates aren't notable. <b style="color:#3399FF">Redditaddict69</b> <sup style="color:#339900">(talk) <sup style="color:#7F007F">(contribs)  21:21, 10 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete Classic case of an individual who fails WP:NPOL and has not received significant coverage outside of routine local reporting of their candidacy for office. AusLondonder (talk) 02:47, 11 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete. I came here via the academic deletion sorting list and while the article mentions some academic affiliations there is nothing there that looks likely to lead to notability. Certainly there is no documented notability in that direction and Google Scholar doesn't show any legal publications by anyone with a similar name and with enough citations to make a case for WP:PROF. So it seems that all we have to go on is the obvious: a city council member running for higher office, clearly not enough for WP:NPOL. —David Eppstein (talk) 06:03, 11 September 2018 (UTC)
 * possibly keep. He was first elected to the City Council in 2001 - Winston Salem is a significant city.  He's had a page on WP since 2008.   I suspect that he's notable, and that the page just needs sourcing.  E.M.Gregory (talk) 13:41, 13 September 2018 (UTC)


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