Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jerry Levy (2nd nomination)


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The result was   delete. Courcelles 00:04, 22 August 2011 (UTC)

Jerry Levy
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This is an article about a minor candidate for President for a minor party. Article says that his other political runs include auditor for the state of Vermont, so he is only running for high office for the first time. It also pays as much attention to his potics than it does to the fact that he played Karl Marx. Finally, it is poorly sourced. SOXROX (talk) 01:15, 15 August 2011 (UTC)

Jerry Levy is seeking the Socialist Party USA nomination for President of the United States, which is very noteworthy. If an article on Jerry Levy doesn't exist, then he cannot be listed on the page for 2012 Presidential candidates, along with the other candidate for the Socialist Party nomination, Stewart Alexander. He has also run for US Senate on seven different occasions (1982, 1986, 1988, 1992, 1994, 1998, 2000), his run for Vermont Auditor just happened to be the most recent electoral campaign. Pnoble428 (talk) 21:25, 15 August 2011 (EST)
 * Wikipedia does strive for completeness in coverage, however we generally limit that to elected politicians (and nominated politicians, for the office of President), not to aspiring ones. Levy fails WP:POLITICIAN, which means that you'll be most likely to get the article kept if you can argue that he meets WP:BASIC.  But right now it doesn't look like he meets that, either. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 08:47, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

Delete Fails WP:POLITICIAN. PaintedCarpet (talk) 01:49, 15 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete: He'll be notable if he wins the nomination, however at the moment he is not.--William S. Saturn (talk) 03:49, 15 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions.  —Tom Morris (talk) 13:30, 15 August 2011 (UTC)


 * Delete Fails WP:POLITICIAN & WP:BIO. Per William S. Saturn, recreate article if he wins the presidential nomination.--JayJasper (talk) 18:25, 15 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete WP:POLITICIAN requires that they actually become nominated by the party for presidential election. No prejudice to recreation if he is nominated. I, Jethrobot drop me a line (note: not a bot!) 18:37, 15 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Vermont-related deletion discussions.  — • Gene93k (talk) 01:23, 16 August 2011 (UTC)


 * Delete If he wins the nomination he'll be notable; if he'd won his race for state auditor he'd be notable. The only way out I can see would be if he could be shown to meet the basic notability criteria (helped by his background as co-chair of his party, perhaps), but the article doesn't indicate that currently. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 08:45, 17 August 2011 (UTC)
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