Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Demetries A. Grimes


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The result was delete and redirect to United States House of Representatives elections in Florida, 2018. Randykitty (talk) 15:48, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

Demetries A. Grimes

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This biography doesn't meet WP:NPOL. The coverage of him in RS is about his campaign. This page should be redirected to United States House of Representatives elections in Florida, 2018 until/unless he wins the general election and becomes a member of the House. Marquardtika (talk) 20:56, 23 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. MarginalCost (talk) 21:25, 23 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Military-related deletion discussions. MarginalCost (talk) 21:25, 23 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Florida-related deletion discussions. MarginalCost (talk) 21:25, 23 May 2018 (UTC)


 * Re-direct, per nom. At this time not notable and reads like a press release, hoping to get votes. Wikipedia is not a newspaper. Kierzek (talk) 22:56, 23 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete unelected candidates for US congress are not default notable.John Pack Lambert (talk) 01:26, 24 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Redirect or delete as it's a flagrant press release at this time and wouldn't pass WP:GNG anyways. SportingFlyer  talk  06:54, 24 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete for failing WP:NPOLITICIAN. Memo to interested editors: Save the text. It may be, may it be, WP:TOOSOON. -The Gnome (talk) 09:08, 24 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete; a redirect would also be acceptable, but we need to delete this page first and then recreate as a redirect from the redlink if desired, because we do not want to hold this blatantly advertorial and improperly formatted mess in the edit history. As always, candidates do not qualify for Wikipedia articles just for being candidates — he has to win the election and thereby hold the office to become notable as a politician, and otherwise qualifies to have an article only if he can demonstrate preexisting notability for other reasons. But while this makes claims of preexisting notability under WP:NMILITARY, it fails to reference them properly — and even if he can be properly referenced over NMILITARY and/or wins the election in November, the article still won't get to look or sound like this. So no prejudice against recreation in November if he wins the seat, and/or if a proper encyclopedia article, written in a neutral tone and properly sourcing his notability as a military man, can be recreated — but this as written is so utterly unacceptable that even if the latter condition holds true it still requires the blow it up and start over treatment. Bearcat (talk) 22:59, 24 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete fails NPOL and fails GNG. run-of-the-MILL local/regional news coverage.E.M.Gregory (talk) 23:56, 29 May 2018 (UTC)


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