Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jason Plummer (politician) (2nd nomination)


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The result was   redirect to United States House of Representatives elections in Illinois, 2012.  SilkTork   ✔Tea time  16:42, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

Jason Plummer (politician)
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Doesn't appear to meet the criteria of WP:Politician, unless I'm missing something? Arbor8 (talk) 17:48, 2 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete - He has not held any significant political offices; being a candidate alone does not satisfy WP:POLITICIAN. ItsZippy (talk • contributions) 18:00, 2 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Merge & Redirect- To United States House of Representatives elections in Illinois, 2012 until the election, restore if he wins. Absolutely no reason to lose content only to possibly have to start from scratch so soon. Dru of Id (talk) 18:08, 2 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Redirect - as above. Coverage is routine for electoral bids, has achieved zero notability outside these runs.  We're going to see more of this as we get deeper into election season; I touched off a shit-storm two years ago regarding people who were known only for running in an election and nothing else. Tarc (talk) 19:43, 2 April 2012 (UTC)
 * weak keep- He is actually well known in parts of Illinois, and he isn't some perennial gadfly or joke candidate. He raised a lot of money, has positive and negative notoriety from his last campaign, that bad TV appearance was national news and made fun of across the land. so Weak keep.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tjm58 (talk • contribs) 14:21, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions.  • Gene93k (talk) 00:09, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Illinois-related deletion discussions.  • Gene93k (talk) 00:10, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
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 * Redirect or possibly Incubate: He's still in the same position as the last nomination, when the result was Delete: In 2010, he was lieutenant governor on a nominated but losing governor/lieutenant-governor ticket. (I have a copy of the original restored to User:Closeapple/Jason Plummer (politician) &mdash; it seems to me that this original has a more comprehensive point of view than the current re-created article.)  It was then re-created as a new article with new content and a different POV: the creator deleted two WP:PRODs, and the article was still removed from article space for not overcoming the deletion reasons.  When the article was moved to the creator's userspace, it was moved back into article space in under a week (which I guess isn't all that uncommon).  This year, he's in roughly the same position he was in 2010: not a running mate this time, but with far smaller voting area, and still not a person who has ever held public elected office.  Is Incubation appropriate for this to hang around in until it's clear whether he will be Congressman or otherwise notable?  If not, summarize in United States House of Representatives elections in Illinois, 2012 and redirect, so that the edit history remains and can be restored if Plumber turns out to be a U.S. Congressman. --Closeapple (talk) 22:38, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete for now; but if he gets elected it's a decent article, so I agree with the Incubate proposal. I'd consider a keep but it seems too much like it's on Wiki to help his campaign. He should have a website for that. Softlavender (talk) 05:20, 6 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete, unelected candidate, not independently notable (ie none of the sources are about Plummer outside of his candidacy). Jarvis Sherbourne (talk) 23:04, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.