Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lee Whitnum (2nd nomination)


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The result was delete. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 00:30, 10 May 2018 (UTC)

Lee Whitnum
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Lee Whitnum appears in news searches primarily due to generating publicity by being arrested. Per Notability_(people) it's a judgement call as to whether that publicity meets the criteria for "significant press coverage." Please note I removed much of the content per longstanding concerns about self-promotion, as indicated by tags and the talk page. Previous version here. NE Ent 19:21, 2 May 2018 (UTC)
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 * Delete fails WP:GNG, fails WP:NPOL.  Whitnam is a non-notable gadfly who makes a nuisance of herself by staging stunts that get a line or two in local papers and get her arrested. one of her silly stunts got her covered in the Hartford Courant: "A Democrat from Greenwich who wants to run for governor on a judicial reform plank was arrested after allegedly creating a disturbance in the law library at the Stamford courthouse and trying to bite a judicial marshal, state police and judicial marshals say."  She has gotten onto the ballot - usually the primary - several times, and lost by a landslide each time.   E.M.Gregory (talk) 17:24, 3 May 2018 (UTC)
 * comment In terms of gadfly notability, she seems to need to up her game to meet that of the likes of Robin Ficker, whose name elicited groans of dismay in the DC suburbs (and may be again, if rumors about him running for county executive are true). It's not clear to me that she is notorious enough at this point. Mangoe (talk) 18:09, 3 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete. Candidates do not get Wikipedia articles just for being candidates per se — if she hasn't won election to a notable office, then she has to have preexisting notability for other reasons besides being a candidate. And no, getting herself arrested for campaign stunts is not in and of itself a reason why she would be more notable than most other candidates, especially if the coverage of her stunts and arrests is exclusively local. Bearcat (talk) 19:36, 3 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete fails WP:NPOL and WP:GNG. SportingFlyer  talk  02:17, 4 May 2018 (UTC)
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 * Delete Getting arrested a bunch of times doesn't qualify someone for a Wikipedia article, neither does losing a race for a public office.--AirportExpert (talk) 18:21, 7 May 2018 (UTC)AirportExpert
 * Delete Not a politician really, just a candidate who did stupid things. Fails NPOL. ~ EDDY  ( talk / contribs )~ 18:51, 8 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete - fails WP:NPOL. Septrillion (talk) 03:47, 9 May 2018 (UTC)


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