Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kash Jackson (2nd nomination)


 * 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.  Sandstein  08:41, 30 May 2020 (UTC)

Kash Jackson
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WP:BLP of an unsuccessful third-party candidate for political office. As always, the notability test at WP:NPOL is holding a notable office, not just running for one: to get in the door, a candidate needs to either (a) already have preexisting notability for other reasons besides the candidacy, or (b) be referenceable to an unusual depth and volume and range of coverage that would make his candidacy much more special than other people's candidacies. But neither of those things are in evidence here at all. I've already had to strip one reference from the article as an invalid WP:CIRCULAR citation to ourselves -- and of the 26 footnotes remaining, ten are unreliable primary sources (his own campaign website, WordPress blogs, YouTube videos, etc.) that are not support for notability at all, seven are glancing namechecks of his existence in articles that are not about him to any non-trivial degree, one is a Q&A interview in which he's talking about himself in the first person, and two are covering him solely in the context of a criminal allegation that isn't notable enough to get him past WP:PERP in lieu of failing NPOL. And while six sources remain that are actually about his candidacy, they're all pretty routine sources of the "man declares candidacy" and "party selects candidate" variety -- so they don't represent enough coverage to make his candidacy a special case. Bearcat (talk) 17:34, 22 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 17:34, 22 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Illinois-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 17:34, 22 May 2020 (UTC)


 * Delete. His candidacy nor his activism warrant an article.--Mpen320 (talk) 19:05, 22 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete a non-notable politician.John Pack Lambert (talk) 19:39, 22 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete The first AfD appears to have been kept incorrectly - the close itself was fine, but the participation was low. Fails WP:GNG per Bearcat. SportingFlyer  T · C  07:24, 28 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete The only non-routine coverage he received is about the criminal allegations and that isn't enough to put him over the WP:GNG Threshold. Best, GPL93 (talk) 21:08, 28 May 2020 (UTC)


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