Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Draft:James Martin (Minnesota politician)

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 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the miscellaneous page below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the page's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the discussion was:  keep. RL0919 (talk) 23:22, 6 January 2020 (UTC)

Draft:James Martin (Minnesota politician)

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Non-notable failed candidate for public office, plaintiff in a lawsuit. Orange Mike &#124;  Talk  23:40, 29 December 2019 (UTC)
 * This person is being talked about on several pages, which gave rise to my creation of this draft. He is mentioned as running for the Minnesota House, and further discussed in the happenings of the 2020 Republican Party Primary.  As stated on the Minnesota primary page and MN-DFL primary page, he is playing a substantial roll in the process of the first Minnesota presidential nomination primary in decades; he is the only person not in the "normal" political circles being talked about.  He is taking some kind of legislative action regarding how the primary process should be altered.  Though not very well-known, his actions are directly attributable to the disbandment of a regional taxing authority in the Twin Cities and the most recent amendment to the Minnesota Constitution.  Furthermore, he operates several businesses, invented a method of electrical production, and seems to be involved in charities.  Several regional newspapers and national reports cited in my draft support these facts and this person's notoriety.  He is really interesting to me (and probably others) because of the things he has done, and it seems his actions are effecting many peoples' lives.  I would really appreciate it if I could continue working on my 2-day old draft.  (I am trying to find documentation for the things he has done outside of politics, and having difficulty.  If you would like to help me, User:Orangemike, I'd sure appreciate the help.) Northmop (talk) 00:49, 30 December 2019 (UTC)


 * Keep for now. I was considering "Delete as promotion", and misleading as he has never been elected to a notable political office, is merely a failed candidate.  However:
 * (1) He is currently running for some office, and a purpose of DraftSpace is to keep this sort of stuff out of mainspace, and in DraftSpace it does no harm;
 * (2) it is not blatantly promotional;
 * (3) We do not want every mediocre candidate individually scrutinized at MfD, and so these sorts of nominations have to be discouraged (read busywork and consider the relative costs of MfD versus ignoring a draftspace draft).
 * I have to object to Northmop's "He is mentioned as running for the Minnesota House". He is listed in a big table of names without comment, this is not a "mention".
 * --SmokeyJoe (talk) 03:30, 30 December 2019 (UTC)


 * Keep - I concur with SmokeyJoe and with the author. More importantly, this is a draft for which there isn't a reason for deletion.  It isn't marginal as to any of the speedy categories and isn't being a nuisance and might be an article sometime.  Keep.  Robert McClenon (talk) 15:21, 30 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Weak keep: Unsubmitted; does not need to be deleted yet. Drafts states that "[Drafts may not be nominated for deletion] solely based upon a concern about notability." Glades12 (talk) 18:34, 30 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep it is where it belongs for now. Lightburst (talk) 19:17, 4 January 2020 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the page's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.