Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Marvin Franklin


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The result was   Delete. Eluchil404 (talk) 06:41, 11 April 2012 (UTC)

Marvin Franklin

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Doesn't seem notable. If it's true that he was the first black candidate for U.S. Senate then that could be enough for notability, but I can't find a source to verify it. Comatmebro (talk) 01:33, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete- I can see some political contributions by someone of that name, and the death of a NYC subway artist of the same name, but nothing to establish Notability. If sources exist, they're buried or offline. Dru of Id (talk) 01:51, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
 * This gets past the hoax hurdle. Dru of Id (talk) 01:55, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
 * So does this.  Schmidt,  MICHAEL Q. 06:45, 3 April 2012 (UTC)


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 * Delete while admiring that a former pedicab driver and current podcaster had the gumption to face off in a senate campaign, such action fails WP:POLITICIAN.  Schmidt,  MICHAEL Q. 06:45, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete Nothing here that amounts to notability. And it is not true that he was the "first black Republican candidate for Senate," not by a long shot. In addition to two senators during the Reconstruction era, there was Senator Edward Brooke from Massachusetts (1967-1979). --MelanieN (talk) 15:49, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
 * I believe by its context within the article that the assertion is intended to be "first black Republican candidate for Senate from Hawaii "... (in a heated primary which he lost), which seems a plausible assertion, but essentially lacks verification. I've sourced the part about his participation in the 1986 Hawaii primary, but cauld not find anything about him being specifically the first anything.  Schmidt,  MICHAEL Q. 18:41, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
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