Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Glenn Nye


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The result was redirect to Virginia's 2nd congressional district election, 2008, can be merged at editorial discretion. Keep arguments ignore WP:POLITICIAN, and sources to meet WP:GNG were not provided. lifebaka++ 15:10, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

Glenn Nye

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Candidate for Congress who fails WP:POLITICIAN. Press mentions are entirely in context of his candidacy. My merge into the article on the election was vehemently contested, and there was discussion on the merits of the notability guidelines, both on my talk page User talk:RayAYang, and on the Wikipedia talk:Notability (people) page (scroll down to the section titled "Interaction of BIO1E and politics". RayAYang (talk) 17:30, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions.   -- RayAYang (talk) 17:38, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Virginia-related deletion discussions.   -- RayAYang (talk) 18:38, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Aw hell, just rename the article Virginia 2nd congressional district election, 2008, and let the redirect just happen. I know, the Republican has an article and the Democrat challenger doesn't, but there was no article until recently, and I can't see bad faith on anyone's part.  Reading the article about the incumbent, Thelma Drake, it's surprisingly uninformative, and you wouldn't know that she was even running for re-election.  Oddly, there's an article about her 2006 election win, but not about the one in '08, the year of "oh wait" .  The solution means that when you click on "Glenn Nye", you get an article about the Nye vs. Drake election.  A one-sided article, for now, but it would soon become balanced.  Fair, unfair, don't care.  A Wikipedia article is not going to decide the election.  Mandsford (talk) 01:52, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep or at least redirect. For those who don;t accept individual article for major party US nominees, Mandsford gives a very good solution with a good explanation. Personally, I think we could always find enough sources in a contest for a national position like this, and we should therefore accept both US major party nominees.DGG (talk) 06:58, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Merge/Redirect to Virginia's 2nd congressional district election, 2008 per Mansford. -- brew crewer  (yada, yada) 21:33, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Merge/Redirect to Virginia's 2nd congressional district election, 2008 per Mansford and WP:ONEEVENT. Only RS coverage comes as a candidate. • Gene93k (talk) 16:19, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep as a major party nominee, although I would not be heartbroken to see Madford's merge suggestion put into action. Ford MF (talk) 18:29, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep, as Glenn Nye is indeed notable. Virginia's 2nd congressional district election, 2008 might appear overwhelmed if the Glenn Nye article were merged into it, although that would of course be the second choice. Based on the competitiveness of the election, the information should not be cut down or reduced as it was previously. Flatterworld (talk) 20:18, 3 August 2008 (UTC)


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