Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rodney Stooksbury


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The result was delete. Eddie891 Talk Work 15:26, 3 September 2021 (UTC)

Rodney Stooksbury

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Obvious WP:BLP1E stub of a random guy who ran for a single election five years ago, did not even try to win, and was blown out. The random musing in the article about how he won more votes than the next candidate is not even accurate (125,517 vs. 124,917). Nohomersryan (talk) 06:13, 20 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Nohomersryan (talk) 06:13, 20 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Georgia (U.S. state)-related deletion discussions. Nohomersryan (talk) 06:13, 20 August 2021 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Keep. Let's disregard the coverage prior to the 2016 election for a moment. Once someone loses an election, they are often forgotten. That's not the case here. He is being talked about well after the election, and by national media. This is much different from the more common situation where an unsuccesful candidate only attracts local attention which ends on election night. I think the post-election references are enough to establish notability. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 06:54, 20 August 2021 (UTC)
 * I'm not convinced. Of these sources    you have newly added, they all date to the special election that happened right after he lost, or only mention him in passing as the then most recent loser. The articles about him "breaking his silence" are the same, certainly not "well after the election". If the bulk of the new coverage is only about him in context as an election failure, he is still WP:BLP1E. Anything after 2017 that isn't talking about how he lost? Nohomersryan (talk) 07:00, 20 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete. People do not get Wikipedia articles just for running as candidates in elections they did not win — the notability test for politicians is holding a notable office, not just running for one. But there's no other claim of preexisting notability for other reasons (such as already having held a different notable office or attaining notability in another field before or after failing to win an election) being made here, and there's no compelling evidence that his candidacy would pass the ten year test as a topic of greater and more enduring significance than other people's candidacies. Bearcat (talk) 13:52, 24 August 2021 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Bungle (talk • contribs) 15:16, 27 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete Fails WP:NPOL as the losing candidate in an election. Edge3 (talk) 19:35, 29 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete Fails WP:NPOL....William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 14:06, 2 September 2021 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.