Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jim Rogers (Oklahoma politician)

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The result was delete. Enigma^msg 19:29, 12 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Jim Rogers (Oklahoma politician)[edit]

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Biography of a person notable only as a non-winning candidate for political office. Since unelected candidates are not deemed automatically notable just for being candidates, the notability test that a candidate has to pass is not just "some campaign coverage exists" -- every candidate always gets some campaign coverage, so making a candidate notable enough for inclusion requires evidence that his candidacy was a special case for some reason: either he already had enough preexisting notability for other reasons that he would already have qualified for an article on those other grounds anyway, or the coverage explodes far out of scope with what every candidate in every election could always show. But neither of those things is true here: this is referenced purely to the routinely expected campaign coverage, not to any strong evidence that his candidacies were somehow more notable than everybody else's candidacies, and the article doesn't even try to claim that he had any preexisting notability. Bearcat (talk) 17:41, 5 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 01:58, 8 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Oklahoma-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 01:58, 8 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Delete a non-notable defeated political candidate.John Pack Lambert (talk) 18:55, 8 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Rogers does not meet the criteria at WP:NPOL (all of the coverage I could find in RS is routine campaign-related coverage and therefore doesn't fit the definition of "significant press coverage"); failed political candidates are not inheritably notable just for being candidates. Zingarese talk · contribs 16:35, 11 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom. Dial911 (talk) 15:20, 12 July 2018 (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.