Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Thomas Craft (politician)

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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 House of Representatives elections in Minnesota, 2014. Removal of the article is supported by general consensus; redirecting will provide value to readers. LFaraone 18:49, 30 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thomas Craft (politician)[edit]

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Non-notable, poorly referenced BLP (biography for a living person) article. I dream of horses (T) @ 23:00, 4 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. – Muboshgu (talk) 23:04, 4 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Minnesota-related deletion discussions. – Muboshgu (talk) 23:04, 4 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep I submitted the article because Craft is part of a small field of Democratic candidates challenging a seat held by a Republican, but was one of 17 Republican congressional districts won by Barack Obama in 2012. All of the other candidates are of equal or lesser note and have links on the Wikipedia summary page of the Minnesota 2nd district. Craft is notable person covered by all of Minnesota's major news outlets.


  • Update - I have added more links to external sources and linked the article with other Wikipedia pages.

/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections_in_Minnesota,_2014 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lozarn1018 (talk • contribs) 23:13, 4 November 2013 (UTC) — Lozarn1018 (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic. [reply]


  • Response to redirect It does not seem appropriate for this circumstance. The page you want to redirect to briefly lays out Democratic field. It doesn't seem like a good place to try and provide greater levels of information about individual candidates. The page is still a stub now, but I'm going to be expanding it in the next week. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lozarn1018 (talk • contribs) 01:05, 6 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Comment The format of the election page allows for information to be added about each candidate. Several of the candidates discussed on the same page have occupations and even a brief statement of their campaign platform. The template is flexible to allow relevant information to be added to the page. There are many challenges with creating and maintaining candidate pages on Wikipedia, including, but not limited to meeting WP:GNG and WP:POLITICIAN and WP:NPOL. Enos733 (talk) 23:53, 6 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Providing substantial "campaign brochure" information about each individual candidate in an election is not Wikipedia's job. Bearcat (talk) 19:28, 22 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, — Coffee // have a cup // essay // 22:08, 13 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, SarahStierch (talk) 19:13, 22 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • The longstanding consensus, supported by WP:POLITICIAN, is that the mere act of running as a candidate in an election does not in and of itself confer sufficient notability to qualify a person for a Wikipedia article — while there are occasional exceptions, normally if a person wasn't already notable enough to get past another notability criterion before they became a candidate then they have to actually win the election to become notable enough to get their own article. Additionally, WP:CRYSTAL precludes basing an article's keepability on predictions about an unelected candidate's chances of winning — so the fact that a Republican congressman currently holds the district even though it was carried by Obama at the presidential level is irrelevant to his notability or lack thereof. Redirect to United States House of Representatives elections in Minnesota, 2014 per Enos733; it's not our job to be a repository of campaign brochures for aspiring politicians. Bearcat (talk) 19:28, 22 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete. Clearly fails WP:POLITICIAN. -- P 1 9 9  ✉ 17:06, 29 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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