Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Joshua Michael McConkey


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was delete‎__EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__. There is a clear consensus here to delete among editors who are familiar with Wikipedia's notability rerquirements. Liz Read! Talk! 22:58, 8 June 2024 (UTC)

Joshua Michael McConkey

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WP:BLP of an as yet unelected political candidate, not properly sourced as passing WP:NPOL. As always, candidates do not get Wikipedia articles just for being candidates per se -- the notability test at NPOL is winning the election and thereby holding office, while unelected candidates must either (a) have preexisting notability for other reasons independently of their candidacy, or (b) show credible reasons why their candidacy is a special case of much greater significance than most other people's candidacies, in some way that would pass the ten year test. But this demonstrates neither of those things, and is referenced 50 per cent to primary sources that are not support for notability at all, and 50 per cent to a tiny blip of coverage in the context of him tangentially winning a tidy but not massive sum of money in the lottery, which is not in and of itself a reason why his candidacy would be special. Obviously no prejudice against recreation in November if he wins the seat, but nothing here is grounds for an article to already exist now. Bearcat (talk) 17:39, 1 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Politicians and North Carolina. Bearcat (talk) 17:39, 1 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Delete per Bearcat. I came across this article previously and would have nominated it for deletion but did not then have time to do a proper before. JSFarman (talk) 19:44, 1 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Military, Medicine, Nebraska, Ohio,  and Washington.  WC  Quidditch   ☎   ✎  18:22, 1 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Delete completely non-notable former congressional candidate. I was about to nominate for deletion when I saw it was already nominated. BottleOfChocolateMilk (talk) 08:02, 2 June 2024 (UTC)


 * KEEP additional categories and notoriety, WP:AUTHOR award-winning published author WP:ACTOR credited actor 57.140.28.16 (talk) 16:33, 2 June 2024 (UTC)
 * KEEP: Additionally, He is a Colonel and Commander in the United States Air Force. 136.54.185.219 (talk) 13:44, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Comment  He does not meet the inclusion criteria as either an actor or a writer.   He has two (very) minor acting credits (as "Westlake Party-Goer" in Buck Alamo,  and an uncredited role as "Launch Room Control Operator" in Transformers: Dark of the Moon). The Independent Press Award is not credible; it is sponsored by an organization (or person) that charges $125 to enter a book in any of 150 categories and sells book reviews.  JSFarman (talk) 19:30, 2 June 2024 (UTC)
 * KEEP: As do all Book Contests, there are entry fees. The book beat thousands of entries from across the world. The Independent Press Award is credible.
 * Writers are not automatically notable just for winning just any award that exists — the award itself has to pass notability criteria as an award before it can make its winners notable for winning it, which means the reference for the award win has to be media coverage treating the award win as news, not the award's own self-published website about itself. And actors are not automatically notable just because acting roles have been had — a person gets over notability criteria as an actor by having reliable source coverage about their acting roles shown in media, not just by having an IMDB profile. Bearcat (talk) 13:43, 3 June 2024 (UTC)


 * Delete fails WP:NPOL and WP:NAUTHOR, and has coverage well below what is needed to pass WP:GNG. Best, GPL93 (talk) 15:34, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
 * KEEP: Josh is the 2023 Chadron State College Distinguished Alumni recipient. There are tens of thousands of alumni, and each year they choose 2 distinguished alumni (a male and female). I know there is a lot of bias against the midwest, but a Chadron State College Distinuished Alumni award is notable here in the midwest. He was also inducted into the Alliance Public schools Hall of Fame. He is clearly one of the more famous Americans raised in Western Nebraska.  69.63.112.226 (talk) 02:03, 8 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Delete: does not meet WP:NPOL before being elected, nothing else to meet WP:GNG. Melcous (talk) 09:47, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Actually, he didn't even win the primary (he ended up in 5th place), so he will certainly not be elected in November. DanCherek (talk) 03:35, 7 June 2024 (UTC)


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