Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jacob Morris

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The result was Delete--Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 22:27, 1 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Jacob Morris

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Non-notable individual, failing WP:POLITICIAN and WP:GNG. PROD declined with the text: Jacob Morris is a candidate for Governor of California as stated on the secretary of states website here: http://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Candidates/List.aspx?view=intention&sort=NAME&electid=62 - therefore he does meet the politician requirements.... which makes no sense at all. He may be on the CA-2018 ballot, but that doesn't get him on Wikipedia. Also, if the username of the contributor is to be taken at face value, this is an attempted WP:AUTOBIOGRAPHY. – Muboshgu (talk) 22:43, 25 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Delete He is an unelected candidate. We dont do articles on people on that ground alone per WP:POLITICIAN. Everybody can become a candidate for the Californian Governor elections if he attempts and fulfills the criteria. I tried to look if he perhaps passes WP:GNG generally but I couldn't find anything on him which would satisfy the criteria. There is zero coverage on him in RS. He is therefore (at least currently) not a notable subject. As the nom has already said the username of the article creator suggests a connection to the article subject. It is therefore possible that this article acts an advert for him per WP:PROMO. The article should therefore be deleted. Dead Mary (talk) 10:26, 26 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Delete He has declared his candidacy for 2018, this is not enough to make him notabile.John Pack Lambert (talk) 01:01, 27 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 04:11, 28 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of California-related deletion discussions. – Muboshgu (talk) 16:28, 28 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Being a candidate for office does not alone meet the notability threshold for an article. ALPolitico (talk) 09:47, 29 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. People do not get Wikipedia articles just for being as yet unelected candidates in future elections (or failed candidates in past ones, either). If you cannot demonstrate and reliably source credible evidence that he was already eligible for a Wikipedia article for some other reason independent of his candidacy, then he has to win the election, not just run in it, before the election itself can "meet the politician requirements". But there's no other claim of notability even being made here at all, let alone one strong enough to actually pass a Wikipedia inclusion bar. Bearcat (talk) 13:37, 29 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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