Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John Foust


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The result was   keep. JForget 02:35, 13 March 2010 (UTC)

John Foust

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Good looking article, sorry to have to nominate it, but it's a local politician that fails WP:POLITICIAN #3 from what I can see. Shadowjams (talk) 08:06, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep. This absolutely fits WP:POLITCIAN! Fairfax County has a population of over a million, and is the largest jurisdiction in the state of Virginia! If members of the city council of New Orleans, a city with only a population of 300,000 people, get their own pages, then a member of the equivalent of a city council for a county with over A MILLION people in it should absolutely be kept! Not even mentioning that three members of the Fairfax County board of supervisors already have pages! -BLM Platinum (talk) 14:27, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Virginia-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 19:10, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 19:11, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment - The Washington Post articles as references are just standard, local (since this is an election within the Post's home readership area) listings of candidates. They aren't articles about him, so I am not sure how the article meets criteria #3. Even if it's big, it's still local. Shadowjams (talk) 20:00, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Again, how much press coverage do you think the New Orleans City Council gets outside of New Orleans? -BLM Platinum (talk) 17:31, 7 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Keep. A well-sourced article about one of nine people who govern an area with over 1,000,000 people. Per criterion 2 of WP:POLITICIAN, I'm willing to make the argument that this amounts to significant press coverage. --Mkativerata (talk) 20:19, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Fair argument but I would object to the assertion that the article's well sourced; there are 3, 2 from the post that they do for every local candidate, and 1 from the local Fairfax county government. The ones you found are local press coverage in my estimation, but maybe there's more there that can be hashed out. (I'll stop badgering now). Shadowjams (talk) 20:24, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
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