Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Larry A. Kaczala

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The result was delete. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 22:10, 1 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Larry A. Kaczala[edit]

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Biography of a person notable only as a non-winning candidate for elected office. As always, candidates do not get Wikipedia articles just for being candidates -- to qualify for inclusion, he must demonstrate that either (a) he already had preexisting notability for other reasons independent of the candidacy itself, or (b) he received such an exceptional depth and range and volume of coverage, far outside of just what every candidate everywhere could always show, that he would have a credible claim to passing the ten year test as much more special than most other candidates. But neither of those things are in evidence here at all: there's no serious claim that he was notable for any other reason, and the referencing is almost entirely to his own campaign website and a raw table of the election results, which is not in and of itself a notability-making source. The only real journalism source here is a single article in his local newspaper about his death itself, which is not enough coverage to get him over the notability bar all by itself if it's the only reliable source that can be shown. Bearcat (talk) 18:17, 24 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 18:17, 24 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Ohio-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 18:17, 24 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Delete unelected congressional candidates are almost never notable. No reason to see this case as an exception to this general rule.John Pack Lambert (talk) 18:31, 24 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete fails WP:NPOL and WP:NPERSON, the coverage I found consisted of an obituary, seems to have been a popular person but never have held a sufficiently distinguished position ('peaked' at county auditor, which doesn't provide inherent notability). Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 19:28, 24 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per above.--Mpen320 (talk) 21:12, 24 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete fails WP:NPOL and is not notable outside of his campaign. Best, GPL93 (talk) 22:07, 29 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete not a notable candidate. Once again, these are easy AfDs when recentism isn't an issue. SportingFlyer T·C 01:17, 30 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete His candidacy was nowhere close to winning. Eternal Shadow Talk 03:14, 1 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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