Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mark Critz


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The result was   redirect to Pennsylvania's 12th congressional district special election, 2010. Content may be merged at editorial discretion. Regards,   A rbitrarily 0    ( talk ) 00:24, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

Mark Critz

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Unelected politician - fails WP:POLITICIAN Codf1977 (talk) 16:31, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions.  —Codf1977 (talk) 16:35, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep, he's the party candidate in a federal election and has gained some notoriety nationwide after the death of John Murtha, whose seat he's running to win. Wrightchr (talk) 16:44, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
 * But you agree then, that he does not meet the WP:POLITICIAN guidelines ? Codf1977 (talk) 16:50, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
 * I think he does meet WP:POLITICIAN, which states:
 * 3. Just being an elected local official, or an unelected candidate for political office, does not guarantee notability, although such people can still be notable if they meet the primary notability criterion of "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject of the article." Due to the fact that this candidate does IMHO have significant coverage and is running in a special election which will draw national attention, much to the same as Scott Brown in Massachusetts. Wrightchr (talk) 17:00, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
 * The Scott Brown analogy doesn't apply as Brown is a state senator thus meeting notability criteria independently of the special election. Valenciano (talk) 14:28, 30 April 2010 (UTC)


 * Keep. Agree with Wrightchr, except for Wrightchr's WP:POV pushing. &mdash; Timneu22 · talk 16:48, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Pennsylvania-related deletion discussions.  -- --Darkwind (talk) 17:03, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
 * I don't believe I'm running a WP:POV here. I'm fairly familiar with both candidates and will attempt to represent them equally and with coverage and with my editing time. To be honest, there isn't a whole lot of difference between the political POV of Critz and his opponent, Tim Burns. Wrightchr (talk) 17:04, 27 April 2010 (UTC)


 * Merge to Pennsylvania's 12th congressional district special election, 2010. All coverage of him seems to be in relation to that election. If he is elected thereby meeting WP:POLITICIAN the content can be branched out again into its own article. Valenciano (talk) 17:17, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Merge/redirect to Pennsylvania's 12th congressional district special election, 2010. Valenciano's suggestion is the proper application of WP:POLITICIAN for ordinary candidates for public office. --Mkativerata (talk) 19:50, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
 * MergeI agree completely with Valenciano. Tyrol5   [Talk]  23:19, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Merge and redirect. I'll go with the merge because the guy isn't notable on his own. Niteshift36 (talk) 14:26, 4 May 2010 (UTC)
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