Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Richard A. Baker (politician)


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The result was   delete.  SilkTork  *YES! 00:23, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

Richard A. Baker (politician)

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fails WP:POLITICIAN. The only coverage comes from a minor local newspaper, which is hardly a testament to his notability - as the local senate candidate, of course he's going to have coverage. Ironholds (talk) 19:35, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions.  -- Cyber cobra  (talk) 05:01, 15 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Massachusetts-related deletion discussions.  -- Cyber cobra  (talk) 05:01, 15 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete: Were he a Senatorial candidate, perhaps that's true, but in fact he's a candidate for the 6th District Congressional seat - which is explicitly not an automatic pass per WP:POLITICIAN. As it happens, he ran for the same seat last year, was thumped by over a 2:1 margin, and wasn't particularly heard of outside of Essex County.  It's unlikely that if he failed of notability last year, he'd suddenly acquire it this year.    RGTraynor  08:09, 15 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. Maybe if some of his patents were expanded on, he might be notable. But as a politician, he fails WP:POLITICIAN. Niteshift36 (talk) 05:17, 18 August 2009 (UTC)

 Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, JForget  23:13, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
 *  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.


 * Delete. Candidate. Abductive  (reasoning) 23:20, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. This is Wikipedia, not Americanpoliticsipedia.— S Marshall   Talk / Cont  10:27, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete None of this is appropriate for a merger to anything. However, I note that the article Massachusetts's 6th congressional district doesn't mention either the 2006 or 2008 election results, and it would be appropriate to mention Baker's name as part of the results of the Tierney/Baker election.  I'd like to see reference to this article removed from the dab page as well, since we have an article called Richard Baker (U.S. politician) about a Louisiana congressman.  Mandsford (talk) 14:20, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
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