Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Leroy Saunders


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The result was   delete. Sjakkalle (Check!)  19:27, 24 May 2012 (UTC)

Leroy Saunders

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One of many U.S. presidential candidates to be the Libertarian Party's nominee. I can't find any reliable, independent refs that go beyond a causal mention. Only mention of him participating in any Party meetings was a debate in February. He was not one of the four nominees at the convention held last week. Prod was contested on unknown grounds. Bgwhite (talk) 20:43, 7 May 2012 (UTC)
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 * Delete I can't find a single mention besides that one debate. Since he wasn't at the convention, there's not even a good place to merge to. Ducknish (talk) 01:41, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
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 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


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 * Merge to 2012 Libertarian National Convention the debate graf and one summary graf of bio. If you have the time copy some text from other bios for balance, or just add and expand or lopsided tag after merge. In accord with long-standing precedent. JJB 05:00, 14 May 2012 (UTC) Delete per Uncle G. I merged the one sentence worthy of preserving and cn-ing. JJB 15:01, 23 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete - While John Bulten's rationale makes logical sense on the face of it, since Saunders received no votes at the convention, nor did he attend it, a merge does not strike me as appropriate. What we have, then, is an unelected candidate. Carrite (talk) 15:37, 14 May 2012 (UTC)
 * This is also an unsourced BLP, containing such gems as: "While in jail, he promised God that if he was released from jail he would never use drugs again." Carrite (talk) 15:38, 14 May 2012 (UTC)
 * The biography that this content is sourced to is an autobiography circulated as part of an election campaign. It's not an independent source, and cannot be trusted to be unbiased and properly fact checked.  I haven't found any independent and reliably sourced biographies of this person.  What I did find all turned out to be recycling the autobiography.  Without any such biographical sources to work from, this person should not have a Wikipedia biography anywhere at all.  Verifiability of content overrides precedent, long-standing or otherwise.  Uncle G (talk) 18:02, 14 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. & others. No significant coverage in reliable independent sources, fails WP:BIO & WP:POLITICIAN.--JayJasper (talk) 16:29, 23 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete, pretty clearly does not meet GNG after some searching.--Milowent • hasspoken 14:10, 24 May 2012 (UTC)
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