Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mike Kelly (Pennsylvania)

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The result was redirect to United States House of Representatives elections in Pennsylvania, 2010#District 3. T. Canens (talk) 04:30, 3 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Mike Kelly (Pennsylvania)[edit]

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Fails WP:POLITICIAN as an unelected candidate for office. TM 21:44, 25 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to United States House of Representatives elections in Pennsylvania, 2010 pending outcome of the election. Jimmy Pitt talk 22:17, 25 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- He is notable. Consider that all the handicappers think the election is a toss up. Plus, he has political experience (local level).--Jerzeykydd (talk) 23:42, 24 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. What the handicappers think is utterly irrelevant: see WP:CRYSTAL. And being a (former) member of a city council doesn't meet WP's notability standards: he clearly fails WP:POLITICIAN. Jimmy Pitt talk 09:30, 26 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

REDIRECT or greatly improve. There's more info (links to FEC and Project Vote Smart) in the elections article itself. There's no reason to have an article that's nothing more than bits from his campaign site, and info that other 'third-party' sources have copied from it. The campaign stuff belongs in the election article anyway. Flatterworld (talk) 20:26, 26 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Pennsylvania-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 01:01, 27 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 01:01, 27 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 01:01, 27 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to United States House of Representatives elections in Pennsylvania, 2010, which is the standard outcome prescribed by WP:POLITICIAN for candidates who do not have any notability independent of the coverage of their candidacies. --Mkativerata (talk) 01:04, 27 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Merge and redirect to United States House of Representatives elections in Pennsylvania, 2010#District 3 per the above and WP:Wikipedia is not a source for election candidate biographies. Wikipedia sees many of these come election time. I interpret routine election coverage to fall under WP:NOTNEWS. Also, the coverage about the candidate is in the context of the election, so (per WP:BLP1E) redirect to the election article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Location (talk • contribs)

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