Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/James Quirk (presidential candidate)


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The result was   delete. WP:SNOW. The Bushranger One ping only 00:38, 17 October 2011 (UTC)

James Quirk (presidential candidate)

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A independent presidential candidate for US President that declared on October 5th. Unelected political candidate, fails to meet criteria for WP:POLITICIAN. Unable to find significant, reliable references, but he has a common name. Prod was contested Bgwhite (talk) 23:59, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
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 * Delete Not notable. I favor a low threshold for inclusion of articles about presidential candidates, and would not limit coverage only to "major" candidates. However, a Google News Archive search shows zero coverage in reliable sources of this candidate.  I would not oppose recreating the article if reliable sources actually cover this candidate.  Cullen 328   Let's discuss it  01:15, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
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 * Delete per nom. Although the article asserts that the subject's claim to notability is as a 2012 presidential candidate, none of the sources cited mention his presidential candidacy. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 04:38, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete - as per my original  PROD: concern = Unelected political candidate, fails to meet criteria for WP:POLITICIAN. Totally unreliable sources. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 05:18, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete - as per above comments. Quirk has not had enough reliable coverage; simply being a candidate does not provide enoguh notability. If he becomes more notable later, then the article can be recreated. ItsZippy (talk • contributions) 15:39, 12 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete Failing WP:POLITICIAN is the least of it; I can't even find confirmation that this person exists. All sources provided are to things like facebook, comment pages on blogs, etc. I could find literally NOTHING in a reliable source about this person. --MelanieN (talk) 22:54, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
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