Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fred Preaus


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The result was   keep. postdlf (talk) 23:24, 20 February 2015 (UTC)

Fred Preaus

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Unsuccessful political candidate appears to be only claim to fame, aside from his owning a car dealership. Per WP:NPOL, failed candidates rarely meet WP:BIO. OhNo itsJamie Talk 19:07, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
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 * Delete Unsuccessful political candidates are not notable for such.John Pack Lambert (talk) 19:11, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
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 * Keep Unsuccessful candidate, the choice of outgoing Governor Robert Kennon in the 1956 LA governor's election. Part of a series of articles on Louisiana politics. Sources are there, and there is no reason to delete him because he lost the election. Billy Hathorn (talk) 04:08, 14 February 2015 (UTC)


 * Delete. No claim to fame except being defeated. -- Necrothesp (talk) 15:34, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Keep or Merge to Louisiana gubernatorial election, 1956. There is information in the Fred Preaus section that would benefit the target article. The Long races and opponents have been of some particular interest academically. See, e.g. Four Anti-Longites: A Tentative Assessment. 24.151.10.165 (talk) 18:29, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Comment. Seems that the article is to long to merge with the 1956 election. The article has many sources independent of the subject and he is clearly notable. Billy Hathorn (talk) 16:59, 18 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Sorry about that, that was supposed to be Keep or Merge. Modified !vote above after your comment. 24.151.10.165 (talk) 17:06, 18 February 2015 (UTC)


 * Keep Too big for merge, while the office does not have inherent notability, the references seem enough for an article. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 05:18, 19 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Keep - I really do need to write an essay about the intent behind the WP:POLITICIAN Special Notability "High Bar." To wit: it is intended to weed out campaign spam from contemporary politicians on the make, not to erase from the historical record every losing candidate. This seems simple, does it not? That said, let's toss the SNG and get down to brass tacks — this is a clear GNG pass as the subject of the article is covered in a substantial way in multiple pieces of independently-published material. Not talking newspaper reports of the campaign here, talking about books, like W. Gene Barron, Union Parrish, pg. 19; Michael L. Kurtz, Morgan D. Peoples, Earl K. Long: The Saga of Uncle Earl and Louisiana Politics, (LSU Press, 1990); Edward Bliss & James Hoyt, Writing News for Broadcast, pg. 28;  Glen Jeansonne, Leander Perez: Boss of the Delta, pg. 162; Michael S. Mayer, The Eisenhower Years,'' pg. 378. And so on. Thanks to the content creator for more of his typically excellent work. Carrite (talk) 06:31, 20 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Keep per Carrite. FreeKnowledgeCreator (talk) 06:43, 20 February 2015 (UTC)
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