Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mark O'Keefe (politician)

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The result was nomination withdrawn as a more solid notability claim has been located and sourced. Bearcat (talk)

Mark O'Keefe (politician)[edit]

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WP:BLP of a person notable only as a non-winning candidate for political office. As always, being a candidate for office is not a notability freebie in and of itself -- to be considered notable enough for an article, a candidate needs to either already have preexisting notability for other reasons, or have a strong claim to his candidacy being some form of special case over and above most other people's candidacies. But this cites just two references, which is hardly an unusual volume of coverage for a political candidate, and it makes no claim to preexisting notability at all. Note that this is the same person as Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mark O'Keefe, which closed as a delete, but it's not a recreation of deleted content for the purposes of CSD -- due to the screenwriter hijacking (and very recent unhijacking back to the original politician) that I pointed out in that discussion, this actually existed before that discussion took place, and we somehow missed the fact that there was a duplicate article about the politician at another title. So it's not speediable, but it's not well sourced enough to stick around either. Bearcat (talk) 19:24, 5 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Concur with and adopt Bearcat's exhaustive analysis and evaluation. He did yeoman work, which I could hardly improve. Quis separabit? 19:51, 5 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Mark O'Keefe served in the Montana Legislature and is notable-I added another citation-Thank You-RFD (talk) 19:53, 5 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 21:00, 5 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Military-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 21:01, 5 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Montana-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 21:01, 5 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Pennsylvania-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 21:02, 5 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Keep The Montana Standard reference clearly states he served two terms as a state legislator. WP:POLITICIAN applies. --Georgia Army Vet Contribs Talk 21:22, 5 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Elected member of the Montana legislature. Passes WP:NPOL. --Enos733 (talk) 21:46, 5 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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