Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Erin Bilbray

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

The result was Delete. Lord Roem ~ (talk) 08:36, 6 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Erin Bilbray[edit]

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This page fails WP:POLITICIAN. She is a candidate who has never held elective office. She is not notable outside of her current campaign. Champaign Supernova (talk) 19:56, 26 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose deletion. According to the Washington Times, "Her race against second-term congressman [Joe] Heck promises to be one of the most-watched in the country."[1] I would be happy to work on this article a little - I like to work on articles about women. Lightbreather (talk) 20:24, 26 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Update: I spent the afternoon improving the article, including getting a photo for her infobox. FWIW. Lightbreather (talk) 00:37, 27 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Nevada-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 01:26, 27 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 01:26, 27 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Delete (or REDIRECT) - Per WP:POLITICIAN as an unelected politician running for office. Coverage about the election is abundant, however that does not establish her as notable. It's run of the mill election coverage. What is needed are sources covering her for her other accomplishments whatever that might be. -- Whpq (talk) 17:05, 27 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- Just a glance at the article show 4 references for other things that she did. So those 'other accomplishments whatever they may be' are in the article with citations. What exactly are you looking for since I was going to add citations, but found them present. Or did the updates since your post cover your objection? Vegaswikian (talk) 18:04, 29 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  - All of the coverage is election coverage. As typical with election coverage, there is background information provided about candidates contesting the election. What would sway me would be coverage about Bilbray that was written because of her other activities independent of election coverage. -- Whpq (talk) 18:09, 29 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: It's standard practice to redirect a candidate page such as this to the relevant main election page, which in this case would be United States House of Representatives election in Nevada, 2014. "Other things" the candidate has done have only been covered by the media because of, and in the context of, her campaign, which means the article fails WP:POLITICIAN because the article's subject hasn't received significant media coverage independent of a campaign for office. Champaign Supernova (talk) 17:55, 30 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Delete or redirect to the election per nominator. Unelected candidates for office do not qualify for articles on Wikipedia just for being candidates — if you cannot make a credible case that she was already notable enough for an article before she became a candidate, then she does not become notable enough for an article until she wins the election. No matter how significant her prior work may seem, it doesn't get her over the bar if it can only be sourced to background information in the coverage of the election campaign — it would need to be sourced to references which demonstrate that she was garnering coverage for that work at the time it was happening, or else it still fails our notability tests. Simple assertions that the race is likely to be widely watched do not make her more notable than other unelected candidates, either — and neither, for that matter, do advance predictions about how likely her victory is or isn't. No prejudice against recreation in November if she wins, but coverage that exists only in the context of an election campaign just makes her a WP:BLP1E as things stand right now. Bearcat (talk) 00:13, 2 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- References and more material were added from before the election cycle, some going back several years. Vegaswikian (talk) 15:54, 2 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  - And exactly none of it supporting any credible reason why she would actually warrant an article in an encyclopedia if she weren't also a congressional candidate. Bearcat (talk) 18:12, 4 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Delete unelected politician who never held office.--Mike - Μολὼν λαβέ 22:23, 4 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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 article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.