Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sheila Bynum-Coleman

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The result was delete. Closing based on early consensus. Missvain (talk) 00:28, 27 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Sheila Bynum-Coleman[edit]

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fails notability under WP:NPOL as a failed candidate. A claim in the article that she was the first Black woman to be appointed to the Virginia Board for Contractors doesn't seem enough. There is WP:BLP1E coverage in the media which, again, is not notable. The clear risk is that the article will facilitate the promulgation of the BLP1E material if the article is not struck first for the NPOL fail. Tagishsimon (talk) 02:42, 20 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Tagishsimon (talk) 02:42, 20 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. No pass of WP:GNG. If kept, the discreditable material here[1] will have to be included for balance, although it is missing from the current version of the BLP. Xxanthippe (talk) 02:53, 20 December 2020 (UTC).[reply]

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Delete: Per nom, and consistent with the consensus on unelected politicians that we should require coverage of the subject's notability above what would be expected for someone in their position; the only coverage that is beyond the scope of what you would expect here is 1E coverage that does not establish encyclopedic notability. - Astrophobe (talk) 02:59, 20 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Even when a candidate has garnered national attention, the threshold for including failed political candidates is a high bar. I don’t believe we’re in that territory here and I don’t see other points of notability—all the coverage seems to relate to her candidacy. Innisfree987 (talk) 03:04, 20 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete The Virginia Board of Contractors is not especially notable - I'm not even sure where it is in the hierarchy of state government, so it can't be very high. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 03:50, 20 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete the nominator puts the issue succinctly. Possibly (talk) 03:58, 20 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Doesn't meet notability standards for politicians and the coverage isn't anything beyond routine political coverage. And the BLP1E issue also doesn't bring notability and it is also just something negative, so would probably violate BLP rules as it is. If the event becomes more notable in the future, then an article on the event itself would perhaps be warranted, but not on this person. Silver seren^C 05:06, 20 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom and per WP:SNOW Spiderone 14:33, 20 December 2020 (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.