Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Diane Beall Templin


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The result was delete. Ad Orientem (talk) 14:51, 9 July 2018 (UTC)

Diane Beall Templin

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Fails WP:NPOL. A perennial candidate who has not received more than 3% of the vote in the 6 major elections listed. She is listed as having received 6.3% of the vote in a Republican Primary in 1994, and then later in the year she ran and lost a race for a local school board. BarbadosKen (talk) 22:21, 1 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete couldn't find sources that satisfy WP:GNG either, nearly all the sources I could find are entries in directories. Although rather interestingly, there is a mention in a novel-  C HAMPION  (talk) (contributions) (logs) 01:02, 2 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. -  C HAMPION  (talk) (contributions) (logs) 01:02, 2 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Women-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 13:35, 3 July 2018 (UTC)


 * Delete. Even at the presidential level, non-winning candidates are still not granted an automatic inclusion freebie just for existing as candidates. Major party candidates typically receive enough coverage to clear WP:GNG regardless of whether they won or lost, and normally already have other preexisting notability claims for other reasons prior to running for president anyway — but minor or fringe candidates don't necessarily have either of those things, and "was a minor presidential candidate" is not a strong enough notability claim to exempt a minor or fringe candidate from having to have either of those things. But the references here are almost all primary sources that do not help to establish notability at all, and the only one that's actually media coverage is a blurb in her own hometown newspaper. That's not enough coverage to make a fringe candidate notable regardless of what office she was running for. Bearcat (talk) 18:21, 3 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Comment: When I nominated the page for deletion, I missed the last sentence which says that she became the American Party candidate with Linda Patterson as her running mate in 2008. According to the Wikipedia article about the party for which she was the presidential nominee, Templin was the presidential nominee for the party 3 times: in 1996, 2004, and 2008. About 2,000 votes are recorded in the table for the 1996 race, but zero votes recorded for the two other races (I guess she was unable to run as a write-in candidate and vote for herself?). While I would agree that presidential nominees of minor parties that have ballot access do pass WP:NPOL, in her case, her candidacies appear to further support that she is just a perennial candidate. BarbadosKen (talk) 21:08, 3 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom and Bearcat. SportingFlyer  talk  08:02, 4 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete Fails WP:NPOL and WP:GNG. \\\Septrillion:- &#8237;  10 Eleventeen 22:54, 6 July 2018 (UTC)


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