Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wisconsin political candidates


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The result was delete. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 05:49, 20 October 2016 (UTC)

Wisconsin political candidates

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Eleven biographies of people notable only as non-winning third party candidates for political office in Wisconsin between 50 and 70 years ago. As always, unelected candidates for office do not get Wikipedia articles just for being candidates — their names can certainly be mentioned in the results tables on the relevant election articles, but they don't get standalone biographies unless they can be sourced and substanced as notable for more than just having their name on a ballot in an election they didn't win. But in each of these cases, the sourcing is parked primarily on The Political Graveyard and pro forma inclusion in a historical database of the election results, neither of which really counts at all toward meeting WP:GNG — nine of the articles are sourced only to one or both of those sources, Uphoff adds her paid death notice as support for her date of death but nothing else that would help build an actual GNG claim, and Emerson adds one news article which just namechecks his existence but is primarily about the winner of the election rather than him. Which means none of them pass WP:NPOL, and none of them are shown as notable enough for anything else to counterbalance that. Bearcat (talk) 22:52, 12 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 22:57, 12 October 2016 (UTC)


 * Delete defeated 3rd party candidates are not notable.John Pack Lambert (talk) 01:44, 14 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Wisconsin-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 06:34, 14 October 2016 (UTC)


 * Delete. As I mentioned in some of the individual AFDs, I believe that this group of people do not meat automatic inclusion under the politician criteria and none reach, in my estimation, articles on their own merits for other reasons.Dolotta (talk) 01:57, 18 October 2016 (UTC)


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