Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Elise Stefanik


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was   redirect to United States House of Representatives elections in New York, 2014. j⚛e deckertalk 16:38, 7 July 2014 (UTC)

Elise Stefanik
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This article fails WP:POLITICIAN. She's a candidate who has never held elective office. She does not have sufficient notability outside of her campaign. This article should therefore be redirected to United States House of Representatives elections in New York, 2014. Champaign Supernova (talk) 20:27, 27 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Do as recommended above. If one day she holds a notable post then we may write an article about her. --Why should I have a User Name? (talk) 21:54, 27 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of New York-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 01:36, 28 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 01:36, 28 June 2014 (UTC)

Unelected candidates for office do not qualify for articles on Wikipedia just for being candidates; unless you can verifiably prove that a person had already established enough notability to qualify for an article before they became a candidate, they do not qualify for an article on here until they win the election. No prejudice against recreation if she wins in November, but she's not entitled to keep an article on here as things currently stand. Delete or redirect per nom. Bearcat (talk) 23:43, 1 July 2014 (UTC)

In my opinion, the fact that she won her primary and is the candidate of a major party for a congressional election is demonstration of sufficient notability. The article should stay.CFredkin (talk) 22:37, 3 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Our notability rules explicitly say that merely being a candidate in an election that the person hasn't won yet isn't a valid claim of notability by itself. This is an encyclopedia, not a news site, and the test of whether or not someone belongs in an encyclopedia is whether readers might still need information about this person five or ten or fifty or a hundred years from now — and in nearly all cases a politician has to win election to a notable office, not just run for one, to pass that test. Bearcat (talk) 04:22, 4 July 2014 (UTC)


 * Delete per nominator. There is no deadline, after all. 59.97.33.75 (talk) 06:42, 4 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Redirect for now to United States House of Representatives elections in New York, 2014. In the event that she wins, the article can then easily be restored.  Lankiveil (speak to me) 13:18, 5 July 2014 (UTC).
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