Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jim C. Beck


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The result was delete. --Ixfd64 (talk) 17:32, 25 October 2017 (UTC)

Jim C. Beck

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fails WP:NPOLITICIAN and WP:GNG Domdeparis (talk) 17:09, 18 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete -- fails WP:BIO written as WP:PROMO with no WP:CS --EC Racing (talk) 17:54, 18 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions. Lepricavark (talk) 20:06, 18 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Lepricavark (talk) 20:06, 18 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Georgia (U.S. state)-related deletion discussions. Lepricavark (talk) 20:06, 18 October 2017 (UTC)


 * Argument Against Deletion. All sources mentioned in the entry are well-respected objective publications in the insurance industry and have nation-wide subscriber bases. Furthermore, all information currently in the entry can be found in the two aforementioned sources.
 * I have reviewed the WP:POLITICIAN specifications. The subject in question (Jim C. Beck) is a politician, who has held state-wide public office in the state of Georgia (U.S. state) and is currently a candidate for another state-wide office. Please understand this is not a "local" office as WP:POLITICIAN specifically mentions.
 * Conclusion: This entry is legitimate. Logically, the subject of the entry is more notable than lesser holders of public office (i.e. State Reps, State Senators, etc.), and therefore merits entry.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Zach191944 (talk • contribs) 20:20, 18 October 2017 (UTC)
 * NPOLITICIAN are guidelines that are meant as a rule of thumb to avoid speedy deletion and PRODDING. In any case he has to meet WP:GNG with in depth secondary coverage. Domdeparis (talk) 05:19, 19 October 2017 (UTC)


 * Delete I ran some news archive searches, got only very routine coverage, stuff like "Jim Beck, a longtime insurance agency staffer and leader of the Georgia Christian Coalition, and a onetime insurance industry lobbyist, has announced his candidacy as a Republican for state insurance commissioner. " and "records show insurance industry lobbyists treated Insurance Commissioner Ralph Hudgens' chief of staff, Jim Beck, and Chief Deputy Insurance Commissioner Justin Durrance to a series of lunches since the start of the year. The expenses total $354.43."  Routine stuff, lots of hits of Beck saying the proper thing to a reporter on insurance relateed issues going back a couple of decades.   I found nothing to suggest notability.E.M.Gregory (talk) 20:33, 18 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete. WP:NPOL applies to elected offices at the statewide level, not to appointed deputies, and being an as yet unelected candidate for any office is not a notability claim in and of itself except in the rare instance that the person's candidacy can be incredibly well-sourced as vastly more notable than most other candidacies for some genuinely substantive reason. And the sourcing here simply isn't what it takes to show that at all — we need a lot more than just two hits from trade magazines. Bearcat (talk) 06:40, 21 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete being insurance comissioner of Georgia, might, and I say might, be enough for notability. Being deput anything at the state level is not. And being a candidate for public office does not confer notability.John Pack Lambert (talk) 01:21, 23 October 2017 (UTC)


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