Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mike Nevin

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The result of the debate was keep. Eugene van der Pijll 21:23, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

Mike Nevin
Politician page, should be deleted as precedent for advertising states. --Titoxd 00:06, 3 August 2005 (UTC) Titoxd 00:12, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Political ad. If he's elected he can consider getting a page. The number of people who run for elected office in a given year is staggering. Not even all those elected are notable. -R. fiend 00:16, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. This election concerns over 950,000 voters, that's larger than a US congressional race - Nevin has already raised over $575,000. He is a real candidate.  I think more information is always better for voters.  If people disagree with the content of the article, please update / add new content.  Mblinder 00:22, 3 August 2005 (UTC) Mblinder
 * He is a real candidate. Thank God. I was afraid at first that he was an artificial candidate. --Calton | Talk 12:08, August 3, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per R. fiend. WP:ISNOT a personal webhosting service. --malathion talk 00:27, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Seems to be an exercise in self-promotion; can't imagine the article would have appeared if he wasn't running for California State Senate. Flowerparty talk 00:29, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and cleanup. Has held other elected offices including mayor of Daly City, a city with a population of over 100,000. Capitalistroadster 01:02, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Weak keep per Capitalistroadster but someone needs to get the POV toned down. Who endorses him in his current race in not encyclopedic. DS1953 01:25, August 3, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and oh yeah, I really need to pick up some eggs when I go grocery shopping.  &mdash;RaD Man (talk) 02:14, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete When he gets elected, we can recheck  04:41, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, is a serious candidate. --Merovingian (t) (c) 11:35, August 3, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. He hasn't even gotten the party nomination yet, let alone won. And being mayor of Daly City is most certainly not a mark of notability. --Calton | Talk 12:08, August 3, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Regular advertising on Wikipedia is bad enough, but political advertising just seems too much like a violation of political ad laws.  Maybe it'd be a keeper without the POV, but that might not be worth the edit unless he is elected.  --Several Times 13:28, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Note: I'm not saying that it's a violation, just that it's kind of a gray area these days. --Several Times 16:10, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep my rewritten version--mayor of Daly City pushes him over. P.S. This in no way violates election law. Meelar (talk) 14:07, August 3, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as per Several Times --BradBeattie 14:45, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep--BirgitteSB 16:26, August 3, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep as per Capitalistroadster. Hamster Sandwich 17:19, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Former mayor of a city of over 100000 ppl meets my notability criteria, especially when we have other gems like Andover Elementary School that are considered "notable". Keep. --Scimitar parley 17:23, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep as rewritten Youngamerican 17:41, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep as rewritten. A notable individual. Gateman1997 17:47, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep as rewritten. Has held notable office, has verifiable positions on issues, and (as a now-NPOV article) summarizes information which might be useful to voters. Jason 18:07, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep if 950,000 potential voters are involved, that's certainly "notable enough." Y0u (Y0ur talk page) (Y0ur contributions) 18:32, August 3, 2005 (UTC)
 * He has to get a nomination before it affects any voters. -R. fiend 19:37, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep as rewritten. Hall Monitor 19:44, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment. While the article has definitely improved since I nominated it, and even reads like an appropriate Wikipedia article, it's still not notable. True, he's a "real" politician (whatever that means), and he has held political office before, but come on. He isn't even a candidate, he's a pre-candidate, which means that he might not get to the ballot anyway, even if he were the frontrunner (remember Howard Dean?). If he had been the mayor of San Francisco or Los Angeles, well, maybe we could keep him. But Daly City isn't big enough (and for disclosure purposes, I live in a city with a population of 250,000). In my opinion, city leaders should only get articles if they have won a seat in a major metropolitan area with more than 1,000,000 people. Sorry, but my delete vote stands until he wins the seat, which as a fellow Democrat I hope he does. --Titoxd 20:15, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. David | Talk 20:17, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep on principal that size (isn't all) that matters when it comes to where officeholders served. I'd accept the long-time mayor of Key West as notable, and that city only has about 20,000 people. I don't know Dale, but neither that nor POV problems are criteria for deletion on their own. DavidH 01:26, August 4, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Sounds notable enough to me.  - Thatdog 04:32, 4 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Mayor of a fairly large city. Sjakkalle (Check!)  10:37, 4 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as per User:R. fiend. JamesBurns 04:34, 7 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep as re-written. --Mrwolf359 18:09, 10 August 2005 (UTC)


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