Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Houston Barnes


 * 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. Lankiveil (speak to me) 13:15, 11 January 2014 (UTC)

Houston Barnes

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Contested prod. This is an article about a politician who has yet to win the primary for the Democratic nomination, much less win the seat itself. As such he fails WP:POLITICIAN. TonyBallioni (talk) 20:27, 3 January 2014 (UTC) Support: Fails WP:Politician and WP:1E. If he wins the election (or even the primary), we can reconsider. Beyond WP:NOTNOTABLE, the article is almost entirely an editor who has only done, as of yet, only worked on that article, which is curious. PrairieKid (talk) 20:34, 3 January 2014 (UTC)

Strong Support: As stated above, it fails WP:Politician and WP:1E. It isn't even really written that well. I think we should include his name on an article about the list of people running with a brief synopsis of him, but there is no need for a full-out article. Leoesb1032 (talk) 21:16, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions. Evano1van(எவனோ ஓருவன்) 21:54, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Evano1van(எவனோ ஓருவன்) 21:54, 3 January 2014 (UTC)


 * Delete per nom. --Nat Gertler (talk) 22:37, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Merge the critical bits to the election article as per standard procedure. Candleabracadabra (talk) 02:12, 4 January 2014 (UTC)
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 * Note I have also listed the picture from the article at possibly unfree files. If anyone viewing this has expertise in this area, commenting at the following link would help determine its status . TonyBallioni (talk) 20:39, 4 January 2014 (UTC)

"Do Not Support". It fits under WP:Politician as the subject meets the Primary notability criterion in of "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject of the article". This can be seen from the references in the bottom of the article. Furthermore, there are many other pages of people who have yet to be elected to a political office and their pages have not been deleted, i.e. Sean Eldridge. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alliegreenprint (talk • contribs) 16:03, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
 * The coverage listed looks to be no more than about 250 words on the candidate at a time, all in local media. That doesn't seem to add up to "significant". If there are other pages that do not meet our standards, that is reason to consider deletion of those pages, not to accept this one. (The particular example you cite is someone who had a Wikipedia page years before he filed for candidacy. That doesn't mean that page's presence is unquestionable but it faced and survived a deletion discussion before he was a candidate.) --Nat Gertler (talk) 16:20, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
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