Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shelly Simonds


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The result was redirect to Virginia House of Delegates election, 2017. Until somebody writes an article about the specific district election.  Sandstein  21:50, 20 January 2018 (UTC)

Shelly Simonds

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This subject fails WP:POLITICIAN. She has never held a political position or office. Additionally, there is not one bit of information about the subject on here that isn't already covered in the Virginia House of Delegates election, 2017 article. Kbabej (talk) 16:31, 6 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Kbabej (talk) 16:35, 6 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Virginia-related deletion discussions. Kbabej (talk) 16:35, 6 January 2018 (UTC)


 * Move and create redirect to Virginia's 94th House of Delegates district election, 2017. Per WP:BLP1E, notability is about the event, not the person, but the event is notable enough to be expanded upon and have its own article. Moving would make use of existing article work and preserve article edit history for attribution purposes. A main link could then be added to the Virginia House of Delegates election, 2017 and Virginia's 94th House of Delegates district pages. Shelbystripes (talk) 17:51, 6 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Speedy Delete She is not notable by any metric.  Also, the event has been covered in other articles.--2601:2C6:C000:312:550B:89BF:71C2:4A73 (talk) 19:04, 6 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Move per Shelby above. The event has received enough significant coverage in reliable sources to satisfy GNG. James (talk/contribs) 20:11, 6 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Virginia House of Delegates election, 2017. The election is fairly well covered in that article already.-- Mojo Hand (talk) 22:11, 6 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Move and Redirect to Virginia's 94th House of Delegates district election, 2017 per Shelbystripes. — Preceding unsigned comment added by MattLongCT (talk • contribs) 01:42, 7 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Women-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 02:02, 7 January 2018 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Relisting comment: Coming to a better consensus about the target of a move/redirect would be beneficial. New article at Virginia's 94th House of Delegates district election, 2017 or current article at Virginia House of Delegates election, 2017?
 * Redirect per Mojo Hand. She doesn't pass NPOL as an individual, but the situation is certainly notable enough for us to maintain content about it in the election article — though I'm less convinced that it would need its own special standalone article, rather than a subsection in the overview article. Update, due to relist comment: just for clarity's sake, my redirect preference is to the overall Virginia House of Delegates election, 2017. That article already exists — and I sincerely doubt that we would need a whole article about the 94th district race as a standalone topic separate from the statewide election just because that particular district came down to drawing a name out of a hat, so I wouldn't really support creating one just for the sake of redirecting this there. Bearcat (talk) 19:20, 7 January 2018 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Killiondude (talk) 23:11, 13 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Virginia House of Delegates election, 2017 as the page exists. If at some point an article is written specifically about the 94th district race, then the redirect could be retargeted. But, that is not a valid option at this moment. --Enos733 (talk) 23:22, 18 January 2018 (UTC)


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