Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hall M. Lyons


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The result was delete. Core desat 04:09, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

Hall M. Lyons

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A minor politician, failed nominee, essentially an obituary. Guy (Help!) 21:03, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

Keep. The story of Lyons and his father is somewhat unusual and interesting. He ran statewide only once: U.S. Senate, third party, 1972. You should allow for unusual circumstances instead of allowing only former state legislators and higher-ranking statewide officials.

Billy Hathorn (talk) 22:19, 17 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the lists of Louisiana-related deletions, Politicians-related deletions, and History-related deletions. See WikiProject Deletion sorting/Louisiana for a list of related AfDs of articles by the same editor. -- A. B. (talk) 23:40, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete What special circumstances? that he ran only once & lost ? How does this make him more notable than the ones who ran  twice and lost? DGG (talk) 08:03, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

Did you even read the article, or did you just push "delete" when you saw in the history who authored the article? What do you know about Louisiana politics? Have you heard of Henry Fuqua?

Billy Hathorn (talk) 07:20, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Weak delete - we do allow for unusual circumstances, but I don't see any here. Sourcing to reliable independent published sources could persuade me here. Sarcasticidealist (talk) 10:47, 20 December 2007 (UTC)


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