Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lois Murphy


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The result was delete. Randykitty (talk) 13:00, 12 April 2019 (UTC)

Lois Murphy

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Fails WP:NPOL. Failed congressional candidate GPL93 (talk) 20:35, 4 April 2019 (UTC)
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 * Delete. People do not get Wikipedia articles just for being candidates in elections they didn't win, but this features neither evidence that she has preexisting notability for other reasons, nor enough sourcing to mount a credible case that her candidacy would be a special notability case over and above other people's candidacies. Bearcat (talk) 21:40, 4 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete- unsuccessful candidate, not known for anything else = no article.--Rusf10 (talk) 01:21, 5 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete unelected candidates for US congress are almost never notable. We still have a lot of work to do to clean out these articles on unelected candidates in the 2000s.John Pack Lambert (talk) 18:56, 5 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Comment Under Lois E Murphy, the subject was elected as a judge for Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas; District 38 in 2009. While this position is not one that would give the presumption of notability, it may help with evaluating whether the subject would meet WP:GNG. --Enos733 (talk) 20:59, 8 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Also as a comment, the 2006 Congressional race the subject was in is the focus of one chapter in "Battle for Congress: Iraq, Scandal, and Campaign Finance in the 2006 Election" 2008 by David B. Magleby, Kelly D. Patterson eds. There appear to be other scholarly discussions about the race (as evidenced by a Google Scholar search). While all this reinforces the concept that 2006_United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections_in_Pennsylvania is notable, much of the subject's biographical details are contained in those academic sources. --Enos733 (talk) 16:37, 9 April 2019 (UTC)
 * maybe redirect to 2006_United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections_in_Pennsylvania instead then? The court of common pleas is just the civil trial division of PA's county courts, so not particularly notable there. Best, GPL93 (talk) 22:06, 9 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Maybe (although her 2004 election was close too). I am on the fence on this one, as there is no presumption of notability for any of the subject's congressional campaigns or local judgeship, but there is some above average coverage of her 2006 campaign and in total, there is a certain volume of coverage that approaches the expectations described in the introduction to WP:BIO. --Enos733 (talk) 03:54, 10 April 2019 (UTC)


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