Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Todd Hauptman

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The result was delete. --BDD (talk) 18:12, 24 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Todd Hauptman[edit]

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Although this article does contain sourcing, I've never been fully convinced that its primary notability claim — the fact that he was a campaign manager for an individual candidate in the British Columbia general election, 2013, who garnered a small flurry of press coverage when he resigned — is something that would warrant coverage in an encyclopedia in the first place. Rather, it seems to violate WP:NOTNEWS, in that there's no real demonstration here of sustained notability outside the context of a single event of almost purely local interest. I cannot, for example, find a single substantive source about him that's been published since the couple of weeks in May in which his resignation was current news — and while the article does cite a couple of sources that were published prior to the resignation, neither the volume of sourcing nor the activities that they reference would be sufficient to get him into an encyclopedia if the resignation flurry hadn't also happened. So, all in all, I just can't see how the guy's actually notable enough to be covered in Wikipedia. Delete. Bearcat (talk) 20:32, 17 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 20:47, 17 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 15:00, 18 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

delete Nonnotable politician. Staszek Lem (talk) 21:32, 18 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, does not appear to have lasting notability. Kaldari (talk) 01:11, 19 September 2013 (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.