Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/River Clarke


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The result was delete. ✗ plicit  23:51, 29 May 2022 (UTC)

River Clarke

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WP:BLP of an unelected political candidate, not properly referenced as having any strong claim to passing WP:NPOL. As always, candidates do not get Wikipedia articles just for being candidates per se -- the notability bar for politicians is holding a notable office, not just running for one, and an unelected candidate must show either (a) evidence that they already had preexisting notability for other reasons that would already have gotten them an article anyway, or (b) a reason why their candidacy should be viewed as much, much more special than everybody else's candidacies, in some way that would pass the ten year test for enduring significance. This shows neither of those things, however, and isn't sourced to coverage that's showing a strong basis for notability: three of the seven footnotes are primary sources (the candidate's political party, government election sites) that aren't support for notability at all, one is a Q&A interview on an individual radio station in which Clarke is the speaker and not the subject, one is a piece of Clarke's own writing, and two are just glancing namechecks of Clarke's existence in sources that aren't about them in any non-trivial sense, which means none of them are building a case for passing WP:GNG as a subject of enduring importance. Bearcat (talk) 22:47, 22 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Politicians and Australia. Bearcat (talk) 22:47, 22 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete Fails WP:NPOL. Cullen328 (talk) 23:07, 22 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete Fails WP:NPOL and WP:BIO. LibStar (talk) 23:14, 22 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete, does not pass WP:NPOL. A candidacy requires extraordinary circumstances to qualify for WP:NPOL. I don't see any here. Also, WP:NOTYET.Ari T. Benchaim (talk) 14:19, 23 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete. Fails WP:NPOL. I could not find any RS (beyond the questionable ones from OUTInPerth already on the page) to satisfy WP:ANYUBIO. Cabrils (talk) 22:33, 23 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete. Fails WP:NPOL and is a bit of a WP:BLP1E (with the event being running for office). — Ⓜ️hawk10 (talk) 20:38, 26 May 2022 (UTC)


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