Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Robert Gray (Mississippi politician)


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The result was redirect to 2015 Mississippi gubernatorial election. RL0919 (talk) 12:22, 18 January 2019 (UTC)

Robert Gray (Mississippi politician)

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This was previously nominated for deletion several years ago but kept as he had not yet lost or won the 2015 Mississippi gubernatorial election. As he has now lost and not held public office, he fails WP:NPOL and likely fails WP:N as well. ––Redditaddict69 (talk) (contribs)  10:00, 11 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. ––Redditaddict69 (talk)  (contribs)  10:01, 11 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Mississippi-related deletion discussions. ––Redditaddict69 (talk)  (contribs)  10:01, 11 January 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete Fails WP:NPOL. All the coverage is WP:MILL election coverage. Bkissin (talk) 18:21, 11 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete unelected candidates are not default notable.John Pack Lambert (talk) 05:12, 13 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Law-related deletion discussions. ––<b style="color:#3399FF">Redditaddict69</b> <sup style="color:#339900">(talk)  <sup style="color:#7F007F">(contribs)  07:07, 13 January 2019 (UTC)


 * Redirect to 2015 Mississippi gubernatorial election. A redirect to an election page is a usual and appropriate outcome for a candidate for a statewide or provincial executive officer. It is possible to add any relevant details about the subject to the page about the election. --Enos733 (talk) 22:35, 13 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Nom Comment - I do support this redirect. ––<b style="color:#3399FF">Redditaddict69</b> <sup style="color:#339900">(talk) <sup style="color:#7F007F">(contribs)  02:11, 14 January 2019 (UTC)


 * Redirect per Enos733. SportingFlyer  T · C  05:50, 16 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Redirect. It's true that sometimes, if the election campaign that a person is running in is currently underway, people will confuse current newsiness with enduring permanent notability. But the fact is that simply being a non-winning candidate is still not an article-clinching notability claim in and of itself — even at the state gubernatorial level, a candidate still needs to either (a) already have had preexisting notability for other reasons that would have gotten them an article anyway, such as having served in the state legislature or having passed notability standards in another career prior to entering politics, or (b) show a depth, range and volume of coverage that marks their non-winning candidacy out as a special case over and above most other people's non-winning candidacies. But neither of those things is in evidence here at all. A small amount of information about him can certainly be included in the election article itself, but nothing here meets the standard of actually earning him his own separate biographical article as a standalone topic. Bearcat (talk) 17:58, 16 January 2019 (UTC)


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