Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Steven McClellan


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The result was delete. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 05:51, 20 October 2016 (UTC)

Steven McClellan

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Delete. WP:BLP of a person notable only as a non-winning candidate for a city council seat. As always, this is not a claim of notability that gets a person into Wikipedia -- although Chicago is in the rarefied class of cities where city councillors do qualify for articles, a person still has to win the seat, not just run for it and lose, to attain notability because of a city council election per se. Further, this is based entirely on primary sources like candidate lists and election results tables, with the exception of a single article on a blog which provides a summary overview of all the candidates in his ward rather than being substantively about this candidate. And nothing here demonstrates or sources that he would have qualified for an article for any other reason, either. Bearcat (talk) 21:33, 12 October 2016 (UTC)
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it might not be a claim of notability but history is part of notability. please help — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jacob20162016 (talk • contribs) 21:42, 12 October 2016 (UTC)
 * It's not our role to document every single thing that ever happened at all, right down to everybody who ever ran for and lost a city council election. Our role is to document important things that people will still need to know ten years from now, like presidents and prime ministers and congressmen, not every little bit of historical WP:TRIVIA that ever happened in a city council election. Bearcat (talk) 21:47, 12 October 2016 (UTC)
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 * Delete defeated candidates for US congress are not notable, those for city council even less so.John Pack Lambert (talk) 01:41, 14 October 2016 (UTC)


 * Delete -- does not meet WP:NPOL; strictly a vanity page at this point. K.e.coffman (talk) 18:59, 16 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete Using a couple of spellings, I checked Google web, Google news, Google news archive, and Google books.  I found this, which was in-depth and interesting, but I don't see that other media reported this story, or have tried to explain why the signatures were discounted.  I checked the Interlanguage links and no other Wikipedia covers this topic.  I checked the What Links Here, and did an English Wikipedia search for a couple of spellings of the name, without finding suitable redirects.  Fails WP:DEL8, including the WP:ATD.  Unscintillating (talk) 22:28, 16 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:POLOUTCOMES. If he had been elected to the Chicago city council, then he'd be notable. However, unelected political candidates are not automatically notable. Few of the sources are reliable or in-depth. We are a charity, neither Ballotpedia nor a free web host for aspiring politicians. Bearian (talk) 01:11, 20 October 2016 (UTC)


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