Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Matthew Zeller


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The result was delete.  Sandstein  09:51, 7 February 2019 (UTC)

Matthew Zeller

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Fails WP:NPOL nor is he notable as a military member. ...William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 15:38, 23 January 2019 (UTC)
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 * Delete - fails WP:NPOL per nom. Skirts89 (talk) 15:55, 23 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete. Non-winning candidates for political office do not get Wikipedia articles just for being candidates, but there's no strong evidence here that he could be considered to have preexisting notability for other reasons independent of the candidacy — the sources which exist outside of the campaign context are all either video clips of him speaking about something other than himself, or glancing namechecks of his existence in articles about other people. Bearcat (talk) 00:42, 24 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep Let's set aside the losing candidacy and look at the career. He founded and is CEO of No One Left Behind.   His book got a very positive review in Foreign Policy.(now added to page)   He got WP:SIGCOV a decade ago for helping the translator he worked with in Afghanistan get a visa to come to America: featured profiles on CNN and in People Magazine.  He continues to be interviewed and to have speaking gigs related to No One Left Behind, but the SIGCOV peaked long enough ago that it requires the use of new archive searches.  (I added some to page.)  Bio details can be expanded from the election coverage, which is reliable even though it does not contribute to notability.E.M.Gregory (talk) 01:29, 24 January 2019 (UTC)
 * WP:HEY, I sourced it.E.M.Gregory (talk) 10:59, 24 January 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete unelected candidate for public office. His other actions do not rise to the level of notability.John Pack Lambert (talk) 18:41, 27 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Your opinion of his achievements aside, the fact is that there has been WP:SIGCOV of those achievements.E.M.Gregory (talk) 23:39, 28 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Revisting because, well, when I am in a minority at AfD I like to step back and double check my opinion. So I went to the page asking myself, does this really pass the bar at WP:SIGCOV.  I clicked the first link, a bare URL linking to an essay  in the Wall Street Journal that I had not read before opining (I did clean up and source other parts of the page.)  But the first link is a deeply moving 2015 essay about Zeller by William McGurn.  Paywalled, unfortunately.  But I am confident in my opinion that this subject passes WP:SIGCOV.E.M.Gregory (talk) 20:32, 29 January 2019 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Relisting comment: Closing this as delete would be defensible at this point, but I'd like to give people another week to evaluate the improvements made to the article during the AfD.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, -- RoySmith (talk) 01:50, 31 January 2019 (UTC)


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