Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Matthew Berry (politician)

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The result was keep. JohnCD (talk) 13:13, 20 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Matthew Berry (politician)[edit]

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Non-notable political candidate. Never held elected office, and failed to win the nomination in a U.S. House race. No notability outside of election. Per WP:BLP1E, he is only notable for this one event. -LtNOWIS (talk) 10:06, 13 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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~~Delete~~. In WP:POLITICIAN, the general rule for candidateswho aren't notable for anything else is to redirect them to the election page. I see nothing about this candidate that stands out, such that the general rule shouldn't be followed. It's a sensible rule, because articles like this invariably have sources on the candidacy but not for the biography as a whole. But I don't think a redirect is possible here because of the "(politician)" in the article's title, so just delete. I should add that General Counsel of the FCC is potentially notable --Mkativerata (talk) 14:31, 13 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No wait actually keep. I totally missed the General Counsel of the FCC bit. Being the top lawyer in a significant federal regulatory agency is quite notable. He is clearly a big player: [1], [2].--Mkativerata (talk) 14:36, 13 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Keep, he also clerked for Clarence Thomas, in addition to being the top lawyer at the FCC, as was mentioned above. ~BLM (talk) 16:51, 13 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Keep per Mkativerata and BLM Platinum. He was General counsel of the FCC, clerked for Justice Thomas, winner of the John Marshall award, etc. Even if he had not run for Congress, he'd still be a notable lawyer. Bearian (talk) 22:55, 15 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. Hmm, it seems I was overly hasty in nominating this. My apologies for not examining this more closely. -LtNOWIS (talk) 22:58, 19 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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