Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dan DeBono (politician)


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The result was delete. Ixfd64 (talk) 17:31, 30 July 2019 (UTC)

Dan DeBono (politician)

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The subject of the article does not appear to meet Wikipedia's notability standards on the basis of WP:SOLDIER, WP:NPOLITICIAN, or on any more general basis. He currently appears to be a mid-level staff official in the Department of Transportation. Fiachra10003 (talk) 14:50, 23 July 2019 (UTC)
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 * Delete. Aside from the fact that this person does not meet the notability criteria, there are some POV issues with the article("comes from a patriotic family"- according to who?). The page creator seems to be a supporter or possibly a campaign worker. 331dot (talk) 14:55, 23 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete. Being in SEAL Team and non-elected candidate in politics, fails WP:NPOL, WP:SOLDIER] and WP:GNG. CASSIOPEIA(talk) 15:05, 23 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - the promotional tone of the article could of course be fixed (it could also be seen as violating WP:NOTADVOCACY), but the article subject seems to be a clear WP:NPOL failure as they lost their respective election race.--SamHolt6 (talk) 15:09, 23 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete: Unsuccessful Congressional runs generally do not confer notability. Cosmic Sans (talk) 15:18, 23 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete. People do not get Wikipedia articles just for being candidates in elections they did not win — the notability test at WP:NPOL is holding office, not just running for it. But nothing else stated in the article is "inherently" notable enough to establish that he would already have qualified for an article before being selected as a candidate, it's written more like an advertorialized campaign brochure than an encyclopedia article, and it's referenced almost entirely to his own self-published campaign material. And as always, the fact that a couple of pieces of campaign coverage exist in the local media is not a free pass over GNG for an unelected candidate either, because every candidate in every district can always show a couple of pieces of campaign coverage. Bearcat (talk) 15:59, 23 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete No indication that DeBono passes any notability standard, especially NPOL. Best, GPL93 (talk) 04:00, 24 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete: generally do not confer notability. --SalmanZ (talk) 21:14, 24 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete unelected candidates for congress are not notable.John Pack Lambert (talk) 14:45, 27 July 2019 (UTC)


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