Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/William R. Hawkins


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The result was delete. The SandDoctor Talk 00:26, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

William R. Hawkins

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Hawkins is an edge case, so I look forward to others' input. I feel fairly strongly that he does not meet standards of WP:ACADEMIC—no named professorships, little to no peer reviewed publications, etc. Ditto for WP:ENTERTAINER for his supposed radio show, which I was unable to locate any information about through this Google search.

The strongest argument for notability is per WP:POLITICIAN; he was nominated as the GOP candidate for the 1990 United States Senate election in Tennessee, losing to Al Gore by over 2-1. I was unable to find much mention of him online (example Google search). NYT mentions him in passing in an article about the GOP primary and upcoming election, and that’s about it. As NYT said, Gore was “expected to handle easily whichever Republican he faces", which possibly explains the lack of coverage one would expect for a major party nominee. Given the lack of significant coverage, I think he ultimately fails WP:GNG. WhinyTheYounger (WtY) (talk, contribs)  23:41, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
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 * Delete. People aren't automatically notable just for running as candidates in elections they did not win, and this certainly isn't sourced well enough to suggest that his candidacy should somehow be deemed more special than everybody else's candidacies — so his notability or lack thereof actually does have to be judged entirely on whether or not he gets over our notability standards for academics or broadcasters, but there's nothing stated or reliably sourced here to suggest that he would pass those tests either. Bearcat (talk) 05:41, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete per above and WP:POLOUTCOMES. I want to stress some additional reasons. First, the article has zero secondary sources, and so he'd fail WP:GNG. He received less than 30% of the vote, losing every county. There are no secondary sources in either this article or 1990 United States Senate election in Tennessee, because it was a foregone conclusion that Al Gore was going to get re-elected, and so newspapers at the time didn't cover his one and only campaign to a significant degree. He doesn't get inclusion merely because the future VP/Presidential candidate/Nobel Peace Prize winner ran over him. I would not oppose a redirect to the election article. Bearian (talk) 15:31, 26 February 2021 (UTC)


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