Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dan Maes


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The result was delete. —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 01:19, 23 August 2019 (UTC)

Dan Maes

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Non notable candidate for office. Fails WP:GNG and WP:NPOL. All coverage appears to be in the context of the election that he ran in. No WP:LASTING notability is apparent. any important information can be merged to 2010 Colorado gubernatorial election. – Muboshgu (talk) 20:01, 15 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. – Muboshgu (talk) 20:01, 15 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Colorado-related deletion discussions. – Muboshgu (talk) 20:01, 15 August 2019 (UTC)
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 * Delete - I find WP:LASTING crediable here. - Scarpy (talk) 20:49, 15 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - failing NPOL. It's not egregious enough to trip any of the attack pages, but I think this page was actually created to be negative towards Dan Maes. Everything has that "slightly negative" sense about it, which wouldn't happen if either a supporter or a neutral writer made it. Were it to remain, it would fail NPOV. Nosebagbear (talk) 11:30, 16 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete. People do not get articles just for being candidates in elections they did not win; rather, to make him eligible for an article, it would be necessary to demonstrate that he was notable for more than just being a losing candidate, such as having already had preexisting notability for other reasons (e.g. as a person who had already been a member of the state legislature or Congress, or a mayor of one of Colorado's major cities, or a notable actor or writer or athlete) — and since every candidate in every election always gets some campaign coverage in that context, such coverage does not automatically grant candidates a GNG-based exemption from having to pass NPOL. The election-specific content can be addressed in the election article itself — but there's no evidence that he has the lasting significance as an individual that would be needed to warrant his own standalone WP:BLP as a separate topic from the election as a whole. Bearcat (talk) 19:26, 16 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete a non-notable candidate for public office.John Pack Lambert (talk) 20:57, 16 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete There isn't any evidence that he has the WP:LASTING significance as an individual that would be needed to warrant his own standalone. --SalmanZ (talk) 22:26, 16 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete He is a footnote from a campaign. Not even his book "Running Without Cowboy Boots" is getting any press.-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 19:18, 21 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete per above. Just not notable. Bearian (talk)


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