Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kevin Antoine


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The result was delete. MelanieN (talk) 23:42, 12 June 2016 (UTC)

Kevin Antoine

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Poorly sourced WP:BLP of a scholar and political candidate, whose strongest claim of notability is that he was the first African American to win a major political party's nomination in a district where the voters weren't majority African American. This is not a distinction that would get him over WP:NPOL in and of itself, so he would have to pass WP:GNG to get a Wikipedia article -- but all we have here for sourcing is an IMDb page and the primary source webpage of an organization with which he's directly affiliated (and the two "external links" are just repeats of the same two "references"), which means no evidence has been shown that he's the subject of any substantive reliable source coverage. And there's a probable conflict of interest here as well, as the article was first created by an WP:SPA with no prior edit history, and was subsequently edited by a user named "Klantoine". Delete. Bearcat (talk) 18:29, 5 June 2016 (UTC)
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 * Delete As non-notable and failing WP:NPOL. Also borderline promotional with wording like "The strategic campaign of this political novice" AusLondonder (talk) 07:48, 6 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete Unelected candidates are almost never notable for that. One has to parse this article closely. We don't even get told what the results of the general election were, but my guess is he was trounced. Also, we need to bear in mind he was not the first African-American candidate for a major party anywhere in a majority white district, back in 1992 Christopher Shays had won election as an African-American Republican in a majority white district, and there was a case in the 1990s, although maybe the next election after this one, where in a Georgia congressional district where a majority of residents were white, both major party candidates were black. He was instead the first major party black candidate in a majority white district in Mississippi, which only had 5 congressional districts, one of which was majority African-American, so that means he was the first major party candidate in one of 4 districts, in a state that had already on multiple occasions sent African-Americans to congress. To keep things in prespective, one current member of congress, John Conyers, when he was elected became only one of 4 African-Americans serving in congress simultaneously. On the other hand, the first African-American in congress, Hiram Revells was a senator from Mississippi, although if I remember correctly Mississippi may have been majority African-American in 1868 when Revells was sent to the senate. Basically the claim to fame is not notable at all.John Pack Lambert (talk) 01:19, 7 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete as this says it all, not particularly solid for the applicable notability. SwisterTwister   talk  06:57, 9 June 2016 (UTC)


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