Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tobias Schlingensiepen


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The result was delete. ~ Rob 13 Talk 03:54, 20 November 2016 (UTC)

Tobias Schlingensiepen

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Delete. Minimally sourced WP:BLP of a person notable primarily as a non-winning candidate for office. As always, candidates do not get Wikipedia articles just for being candidates, but rather must be shown and sourced to have already passed a notability criterion for some other reason before becoming candidates -- but nothing here shows or sources that at all. Bearcat (talk) 01:09, 21 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 01:33, 21 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Kansas-related deletion discussions. NewYorkActuary (talk) 19:57, 23 October 2016 (UTC)


 * Keep At first I thought this was one to cut, but as I clicked past the first couple of pages of a Google News search, I started to find a significant amount of regional and some national coverage on his campaign and events leading up to it. The Wall Street Journal article that I added was what first caught my eye.  I believe that there is enough coverage to pass WP:GNG and even build a pretty darned good article on this subject.--Paul McDonald (talk) 03:57, 24 October 2016 (UTC)
 * I'd like to know which Google you were searching, because on my Google he gets just two pages of purely local campaign coverage and/or glancing namechecks of his existence in articles about other things, and there isn't even a third page of results to click past the second page to. Bearcat (talk) 14:48, 24 October 2016 (UTC)
 * This is crazy--it's the second time this has happened. I'm unable to repeat the search.  Last night I clicked on the "news" link above and it gave me tons of stuff, including a WSJ article that I put in the article. There were more and I intended to return.  Now I cannot find them.  I'm confident it was the "news" link above and not any of the others.  I am baffled.--Paul McDonald (talk) 14:53, 24 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Is it possible you searched without quotation marks the first time? If I do that, I do get additional hits where people whose first name is Tobias are sitting alongside distinct people whose last name is Schlingensiepen. (And I should also note that the WSJ reference is not an article about him in the news section of the WSJ, but a campaign-style biography of him in their "database of campaign-style biographies of every candidate in the entire country" section for the 2012 election. So it's just WP:ROUTINE coverage, not WP:GNG coverage.) Bearcat (talk) 14:58, 24 October 2016 (UTC)
 * I don't think so because it took me to a WSJ article on the subject. But if it can't be repeated, the argument should be disregarded.--Paul McDonald (talk) 16:16, 24 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Hmmm... the search is working again and yielding more results. I'll stay on keep for now but I won't be offended to be on the losing side of this one.--Paul McDonald (talk) 12:13, 28 October 2016 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 01:19, 28 October 2016 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Delete His highly distinctive name pretty much guarantees the accuracy of a Google search. Though this person exists and is presumably a very nice guy, he fails WP:POLITICIAN as an unelected candidate. I found no evidence of notability for any other reason. Cullen328  Let's discuss it  06:23, 28 October 2016 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Cavarrone 07:51, 5 November 2016 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Delete Individual does not meet the level of notability required for a politician or an activist. ALPolitico (talk) 02:41, 8 November 2016 (UTC)
 * delete the WSJ article was a listing (extensive, but, still, a listing) the Journal's "Project Election" page; not a "real" article.  Rest of the articles I found  were local and election related.E.M.Gregory (talk) 23:19, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete Google searches reveal no notability outside his minor unelected role in state politics in Kansas AusLondonder (talk) 22:11, 17 November 2016 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ⓩⓟⓟⓘⓧ Talk 17:29, 19 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Why on Earth was this relisted? The consensus is crystal-clear. 86.17.222.157 (talk) 20:45, 19 November 2016 (UTC)
 * WP:RELISTINGISEVIL I agree (as the sole "supporter" of keep, it's done).--Paul McDonald (talk) 21:04, 19 November 2016 (UTC)


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