Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Harry Welty

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The result was delete and redirect to United States House of Representatives elections in Minnesota, 2006#District 8. Consensus is for removal, seeing as the redirect has gone uncontested and has a supporting argument I'll go for this. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 16:31, 7 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Harry Welty[edit]

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Delete. Poorly sourced WP:BLP of a person notable only as a school board trustee and an unsuccessful candidate for higher office. The only marginal claim of "more notable than the norm for unelected candidates" here is that he was the first-ever candidate of a shortlived new political party that never really had any electoral success -- but that's not an inclusion criterion that passes WP:NPOL, so his eligibility for a Wikipedia article would depend entirely on being sourced well enough to get over WP:GNG. But none of the sourcing here accomplishes that; apart from two local news articles about being elected to and resigning from the school board, the only other sources we have here are a self-published article on his own blog and three dead links of raw election results. This is not the kind of coverage that it takes to make a school board trustee or an unelected candidate for office notable enough for inclusion. Bearcat (talk) 00:08, 29 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Redirect to United States House of Representatives elections in Minnesota, 2006#District 8 My edit of 20:59, 11 November 2006‎, was "(moved Harry Welty to Minnesota 8th congressional district election, 2006: Moving to campaign article per Wikipedia:Candidates and elections, because individual is non-notable per WP:BIO - failed candidacy.)" However, the article about that specific district election is gone, and is now just a redirect to Minnesota's 8th congressional district (Back in 2006, we had fantasies of having one article for every House of Representatives election for every year; in 2016, all we have is one section in one article for all the elections of a district.) So there no longer is room to even include minor parties in the relevant, existing Wikipedia article. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 03:34, 29 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Update: Enos733 pointed out the existence of a page that I wasn't aware of, and I've fixed the redirect of Minnesota 8th congressional district election, 2006. For the Welty article, a redirect serves roughly the same purpose as deleting the article (because it fails WP:N), but does provide someone doing a search with a bit more information (they'll see that Welty got less than 2% of the vote in the election). -- John Broughton (♫♫) 23:27, 3 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per both of the above. Also, we almost never keep unsuccessful candidates' articles, and I don't see that changing anytime soon. This is a run of the mill local activist who is screaming on a soap box. This page literally angers me. Bearian (talk) 17:16, 30 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Minnesota-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 06:48, 3 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 06:48, 3 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per Bearcat. I note that (within the United States at least), there are usually election pages for each State's U.S. House and Senate races (e.g. United States House of Representatives elections in Minnesota, 2006). These election pages are an appropriate pages to place information about the candidates (including unelected candidates - subject to WP:UNDUE). - Enos733 (talk) 21:41, 3 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Delete This guy was not just defeated, he was trounced in his races for congress.John Pack Lambert (talk) 01:50, 7 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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