Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/George Gaulrapp


 * 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 delete, borderline WP:SNOW. There is no reasonable chance of a different outcome at this point. BD2412 T 22:49, 28 May 2020 (UTC)

George Gaulrapp

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WP:BLP of an local politician who ran for notable office. As always, unelected candidates for political office do not get Wikipedia articles just for being candidates: they must either (a) already have had preexisting notability for other reasons that would already have gotten them into Wikipedia independently of the candidacy (i.e. the Cynthia Nixon test), or (b) be referenceable to a volume and depth and range of media coverage that marks his candidacy out as much more special than everybody else's candidacies, in some way that would pass the ten year test for enduring significance (the Christine O'Donnell test). I do not believe that his tenure as the Mayor of Freeport, Illinois with a population under 100,000 residents has distinguished him in such a way to meet notability. Credit to Bearcat for this template language. --Mpen320 (talk) 23:52, 22 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 01:56, 23 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Illinois-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 01:56, 23 May 2020 (UTC)


 * Delete per nom. Iamreallygoodatcheckers (talk) 11:54, 23 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete Unsuccessful candidates for U.S. Congress do not pass WP:NPOL. There is nothing that suggests coverage of the subject's tenure as Mayor of Freeport that would pass WP:GNG. --Enos733 (talk) 16:32, 23 May 2020 (UTC)--Enos733 (talk) 16:32, 23 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete. Freeport IL (pop. 25K) is not large enough to hand an automatic presumption of notability to its mayors in the absence of a properly demonstrated pass of WP:NPOL #2, and non-winning candidates for more notable offices do not get articles just for being candidates — to warrant an article on either of those grounds per se, it would have to be genuinely substantive and well-sourced enough to demonstrate that he could be considered a special case of significantly greater notability than the norm for those levels of significance, but that's not what this article is showing. Bearcat (talk) 15:41, 24 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete unsuccessful candidates for the US House of Representatives are not notable for that, and there is nothing else about this indivudal that adds up to notability.John Pack Lambert (talk) 13:24, 26 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete these always get a lot less AfD opposition after the campaign's over. SportingFlyer  T · C  07:17, 28 May 2020 (UTC)


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