Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Krishanti O'Mara Vignarajah (2nd nomination)

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The result was redirect to 2018 Maryland gubernatorial election per WP:ATD. Redirects are cheap. Ad Orientem (talk) 00:13, 4 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Krishanti O'Mara Vignarajah

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Article which was deleted in November, but then got recreated in December without actually building a stronger case for her notability than what wasn't good enough the first time. This is written differently enough that I don't feel comfortable immediately speedying it as a recreation of deleted content, but it isn't actually making a stronger notability case or referencing it any better -- in fact, by and large the referencing is even more dependent on primary sources that don't constitute support for notability at all (e.g. her speaker profiles on the self-published websites of conferences she spoke at, and Q&A interviews in which she's the speaker and not the subject being spoken about), and the small amount of stuff that is real media coverage is still just routine local coverage of her unsuccessful candidacy itself, rather than substantive coverage of her in any potentially notable context.
As always, the standards that an unsuccessful candidate would have to meet to qualify for a Wikipedia article are that either (a) she can be properly shown as having already had preexisting notability for other reasons besides being an unsuccessful political candidate per se (the Hillary Clinton test), or (b) her candidacy coverage exploded to the point that her candidacy can credibly be shown as a special case over and above everybody else's candidacies (the Christine O'Donnell test) — but this still shows neither of those things to be true at all. So showing a smattering of campaign coverage is not enough to get her over the bar, and the article still states nothing about her that's "inherently" notable enough to exempt her from having to have much more media coverage than this.
I also strongly suspect some form of conflict of interest editing, as the creator's username was "Marylandresident" and they've made virtually no edits to Wikipedia at all on any topic besides Vignarajah and her husband. Bearcat (talk) 21:28, 27 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Maryland-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 21:58, 27 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 21:58, 27 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete she remains a non-notable politician.John Pack Lambert (talk) 22:00, 27 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Apart from the sources included in the article, there's an article in The Frederick News-Post about her and the commencement address she gave [1]; the Sunday Times of Sri Lanka reprinted the Birchbox profile of her [2]; the Daily Mirror of Sri Lanka has a para about her in the article 'Hemas hosts Women’s Educational and Economic Empowerment Forum' (apparently she was Senior Advisor to the Asian University for Women (AUW), Bangladesh, in early 2017); India Abroad has a para about her in an article about Indian-Americans giving commencement speeches [3] (apparently she was founder and CEO of Spotluck Inc). So it seems like there were two substantial profiles of her, and some shorter coverage, before she ran for governor. I'm not sure that two counts as "significant coverage in multiple published secondary sources". RebeccaGreen (talk) 00:25, 28 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to 2018 Maryland gubernatorial election On top of the typical WP:NPOL failure (didn't win primary election. Candidates not notable), the article has some real POV issues bordering on WP:PROMO. The promo issues are reason to delete in and of itself, but I'm not seeing GNG. There are plenty of State Department personnel who don't have articles. Bkissin (talk) 21:46, 28 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete I am not sure that a redirect to 2018 Maryland gubernatorial election makes sense. The current lede of the article does not say anything about the subject's run for office (and she finished third in the statewide primary), suggesting she is more notable for other parts of her life. Nothing shows that there is "significant coverage in multiple published secondary sources," and would fail WP:NPOL. --Enos733 (talk) 08:53, 29 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Women-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 01:41, 30 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to 2018 Maryland gubernatorial election as per @Bkissin, whose argument I adopt. No sense repeating the exact same commentary. [email protected] 02:18, 3 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete nicely written but not notable. Cheesesteak1 (talk) 07:22, 3 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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