Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Matthew Daly (politician)


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The result was delete. Spartaz Humbug! 07:43, 26 November 2017 (UTC)

Matthew Daly (politician)

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WP:BLP of a person notable only as a non-winning candidate in a state legislature primary. As always, this is not a claim of notability that gets a person over WP:NPOL — he has to win the election, not just run in it, to be deemed automatically notable as a politician — but there's no evidence of reliable source coverage about him to suggest that his candidacy was somehow more noteworthy than usual: four of the five references here are primary sources that cannot support notability at all, and the fifth is just a glancing namecheck of his existence in routine local coverage of the basic fact that the primary election was happening. This is not enough to make a non-winning candidate notable just for being a candidate. Bearcat (talk) 04:09, 18 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 04:33, 18 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of North Carolina-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 04:33, 18 November 2017 (UTC)


 * Delete Fails WP:POLITICIAN. Clearly created to promote a 2016 Congressional primary run, and abandoned when the candidate lost. Future tense when past tense is called for is the evidence. Cullen328  Let's discuss it  05:19, 18 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Redirect to North Carolina Senate election, 2016 (which badly needs work itself, but that's another matter). - The Bushranger One ping only 21:13, 18 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete The subject was involved in a state legislative race, not even a federal race and fails WP:NPOL. It would not be a usual occurrence to redirect a losing candidate of a state legislative race to a page about the election, especially a page that is about multiple races (in 2016, there were 50 Senate seats up for election). --Enos733 (talk) 06:14, 23 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete although this was not "congressional", the state senate is a postion in the state legislature. Short of US senate, candidates are not notable, and for US senate there needs to be substantial coverage.John Pack Lambert (talk) 16:18, 23 November 2017 (UTC)


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