Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jimmy McMillan

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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 of the debate was DELETE. Mo0[talk] 17:12, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Jimmy McMillan

Delete non notable individual with miniscule, if any, following. not all candidates for political office deserve notability. vanity article, WP:VAIN. Fails to meet WP:BIO. Note: Rent Is Too Damn High Party is also nominated for deletion. Strothra 15:48, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

  • Keep I looked it up, this is a real guy who really did run for mayor of NYC and is planning is the running for governor of New York. He's sounds little crazy, but he's real and notable...barely...cleanup could be in order. Yanksox 18:19, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete per nom. WP:NN per WP:BIO. He apparently did run for office to make a point about rent, but his notability does not seem to rise to the level of WP:BIO for a living person. Also, one link is his own (which wouldn't count as source), one is a brief mention in a local web site of unknown (to me) popularity of his apparent candidacy, and two have no mention of him that I can see. Google comes up with this (that I would add to push a Keep view) which seems to confirm that he actually registered but so did some other unknowns/non-notables so it would take more than that IMO to rise above the WP:N barrier, like confirmation of notability in WP:RS or otherwise reliable proof of notable impact. Crum375 20:11, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep A combination of his outlandish views and by virtue of him running for an office makes him notable enough. It is clear that the article doesn't support him so it isn't exactly a vanity article anyways.- Moshe Constantine Hassan Al-Silverburg | Talk 00:08, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
    • I think you'd have to reliably show that it was widely known he was running. The issue is notability, not whether he did anything interesting. Crum375 00:56, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
      • precisely. --Strothra 01:01, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep. Ran for Mayor, got some press coverage, seems like we should keep this. Merge in info from Rent Is Too Damn High Party. -- JJay 01:48, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
Seems like we should keep this on what grounds? There's no firm establishment of notability or compliance with WP:BIO. It doesnt look like the other article will survive AfD so I think that it certainly should be held off on merging info in until the results of that AfD come in or then that material should be deleted due to it's lack of encyclopedic nature. --Strothra 02:09, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Answered with my original comment. --JJay 00:37, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
 AFD relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that a decision may be reached.
 Please add new discussions below this notice. Thanks, Ezeu 00:27, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete - Everyone can run for mayor, there's always a few absolute losers who do it an get like 100 votes or so from people who ticked the wrong box. Voting for the Mayor of London 2 years back, I do remember the mass of non-candidates there. They are not notable. - Hahnchen 00:34, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete - non-notable minority candidate with no statistical chance of victory doktorb | words 00:42, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep - looks notable enough for a living person. "Persons achieving renown or notoriety for their involvement in newsworthy events" --Kickstart70-T-C 01:08, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
  • 'Also-ran' single issue candidate is not newsworthy in and of itself - anyone can pay a fee and do it - there is no reliable proof of notability here. Crum375 02:02, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete per nom; great, where's the actual proof he did receive "renown" or "notoriety?" This still fails WP:V; we are not supposed to just presume that anyone with an article passes WP:BIO, we're supposed to prove that it does. RGTraynor 18:07, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete, so what if he ran for mayor for NYC? Is he notable? Non-notable. --Terence Ong 02:20, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete I thought about voting Keep, but after viewing his Google hits (671), I say toss it. Adambiswanger1 03:01, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete - Is there a WP:Crackpot category yet? --cholmes75 (chit chat) 03:09, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete, winning the election would be the bare minimum of notability for me. Being a weirdo who got a little attention for being a weirdo isn't enough. -- Kjkolb 03:25, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep per Yanksox Computerjoe's talk 07:24, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete and/or Merge into New York City mayoral election, 2005. Non-notable frootbat. --Calton | Talk 07:57, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete, failed political candidate... does not meet WP:BIO. Possibly deserves a footnote in the an article about the election itself. Certainly not a bio article. - Motor (talk) 10:15, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete, single issue candidate who did not get up on the day. Not notable and clearly little from reliable sources - Peripitus (Talk) 11:46, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete as subject does not meet the WP:BIO inclusion criteria. Press coverage is to minor and running for mayor, even in NYC, does not qualify one under WP:BIO.--Isotope23 12:53, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 16:01, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete, I see nothing to suggest he's worth an article. Perhaps (s)merge per Calton. — Haeleth Talk 16:50, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete Neither a "Major local political figure who receives significant press coverage" or a "Political figure holding international, national or statewide/provincewide office." He doesn't meet many, if any, of the alternative tests at WP:BIO. If I ran for mayor of Seattle on a "ban clothing/nudity for all" ticket, I would be crazy and probably receive some press. This would not, however, make me notable unless it was picked up nationally. —WAvegetarian•(talk) 19:56, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Strong delete a complete failed joke candidate running for a joke party. Anybody can just pay $200 or thereabouts and get their name on a ballot paper. Blnguyen | Have your say!!! 01:38, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete. I was glad this article was here during the election, as the Rent Is Too Damn High party line definitely piqued my interest. However, the most notable thing about Mr. McMillan (the kerfuffle about anti-semitism) is un-cited and not that notable (lots of nuts can afford websites and ballot access). --Clconway 07:59, 9 June 2006 (UTC)


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