Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rich Hoffman

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The result of the debate was KEEP. -Splash 01:10, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

Rich Hoffman
Labelled incorrectly as a "United States Congressman from New York". There is nobody called Hoffman on the list on the house.gov website. The Nita Lowey article mentions Rich Hoffman, saying he was her opponent in 2004; describes him as "a self-funded candidate". This information was added a few hours ago by a user who also edited this article. Lowey is the incumbent for New York 18th District. I have verified that somebody called Richard Hoffman did run against Lowey last year. She trounced him.

Probably not notable (no vote either way). If article is kept obviously it needs cleanup. --Tony Sidaway Talk 08:45, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, not elected = not notable. Radiant_ &gt;|&lt; 10:50, August 18, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep my rewritten version. Disclaimer: he's an unsuccessful Republican U.S. House candidate. I don't know if this meets your bar for notability, but it does meet mine. Meelar (talk) 14:26, August 18, 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment. See also Richard A. Hoffman, which is just a duplicate of the older page. Sdedeo 15:21, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment. And Richard hoffman. Sdedeo 15:22, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment. Nothing to see there. I made redirects of them. Punkmorten 21:27, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep but keep it short. On many occasions over the years I have looked up past opponents of current Congressmen.  The ones who are not notable for any other reason (other than their campaign) become very difficult to find.  In my view, a short article in Wikiepdia on losing Congressional and Senatorial candidates in general elections is a good thing.  But don't overdo a good thing by extending the concept to losing State Representative candidates or non-notable primary opponents. -- DS1953 16:08, August 18, 2005 (UTC)
 * keep. Interesting. Trollderella 18:17, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep seems reasonable enough. Punkmorten 21:27, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect into a new article List of losing 2004 U.S. House candidates. Then merge with other information on other persons whose only notable achievement was that they ran in a single U.S. House race and lost.  I did a quick gander at other blue links for losing candidates on 2004 U.S. House election.  The majority of them just regurgiated the obvious from that article with maybe a link to their campaign website.  A few were for Texas representatives wo lost seats thanks to DeLay's gerrymander.  There were a number of incorrect links to people who happened to have the same name.  (The most amusing was from a losing Texas Democratic candidate for the House of Representatibves to a winning Nevada Republican candidate for the House of Representatives with the same name Jon Porter.  This isn't even counting the vast majority of red links for losing candidates in that article. Caerwine 21:48, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keepr : There is enough info in the article to consider this subject as interesting--Revas 23:27, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
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