Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nels Mitchell

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was redirect to United States Senate election in Idaho, 2014. That other candidates receive an article does not by default mean this one can as well, see WP:WAX. Picking a redirect instead of deletion, in case someone can reuse the content in the election article. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 05:44, 8 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Nels Mitchell[edit]

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Non-notable BLP. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:44, 31 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Other people who ran for senate got recognition and got articles, Mitchell is notable enough for one.--James C. Anderton (talk) 13:45, 31 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- @Andertonian: Please see WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS and, more generally, WP:N and WP:42. It's great that you're here to help, but you need to grasp the basics of "notability" - how we decide whether or not to have an article on a given subject. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:51, 31 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Andy Mabbett I can add more stuff to the article, it's not completely finished.--James C. Anderton (talk) 13:55, 31 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Selective merge and redirect to United States Senate election in Idaho, 2014. The nominator is correct that we don't generally consider an unelected political candidate to be sufficiently notable to require a separate biographical article, unless the subject has another basis for notability, such as receiving sufficient coverage for other activities to pass the general notability guideline. See Wikipedia:Notability (people)#Politicians: "Just being an elected local official, or an unelected candidate for political office, does not guarantee notability, although such people can still be notable if they meet the primary notability criterion of 'significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject of the article'." See also Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Common outcomes#Politicians: "Candidates who ran but never were elected for a national legislature or other national office are not viewed as having inherent notability and are often deleted or merged into lists of campaign hopefuls, such as Ontario New Democratic Party candidates, 1995 Ontario provincial election, or into articles detailing the specific race in question, such as United States Senate election in Nevada, 2010. Note that such articles are still subject to the same content policies as any other article, and may not contain any unsourced biographical information that would not be acceptable in a separate article." A few of his bio details could be added to the description of Mitchell in the Senate election article. --Arxiloxos (talk) 21:44, 31 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 01:30, 1 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Idaho-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 01:30, 1 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Concur with nom. This person lost an election and the article makes no other assertion of notability. MB 03:54, 1 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. While James Anderton is right that some unelected candidates do have Wikipedia articles, he's wrong about how and why that happens. It is certainly possible in some circumstances for an unelected candidate to already have preexisting notability for other reasons — Sharron Angle, for instance, was a member of the Nevada State Assembly for almost ten years before running for the US Senate, and qualified for an article on that basis regardless of her success or failure in the US Senate elections of 2010 — but unelected candidates do not get Wikipedia articles if their unsuccessful candidacy is the sum total of the notability claim. Mitchell's name can be noted in the articles where it's relevant, but nothing written or sourced here suggests that he had the preexisting notability necessary to earn a standalone BLP separate from his name being present in election results tables. Bearcat (talk) 22:53, 3 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per WP:NPOL as unelected candidate. At this point this is nothing but a vanity page. K.e.coffman (talk) 05:42, 4 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.