Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chris Mintz

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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 no consensus. Soapboxing concerns are still here I think, but Black Falcon and DGG's newly presented information is compelling enough to keep the article for now. IronGargoyle 00:14, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Chris Mintz

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Candidate for North Carolina state treasurer in 2008. No other claim to notability, no independent sources. Only notable (maybe) if he wins, not till then. NawlinWiki 03:51, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

  • Delete Political candidates are not notable. Calgary 04:02, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete Political candidates are not inherently notable. I see no indication that being a candidate for state treasurer establishes notability. Resolute 04:14, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete unless article can make some claim to notability and source those claims. Montco 05:12, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Weak Delete Political candidates are not notable. This politican have not held any national office and have not received any significant press coverage. However, it must be noted that a google search shows over a thousand hits for this politician. --Siva1979Talk to me 10:47, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Strong Delete No references, vanity piece for a candidate. If it had more references I might be convinced to keep but as written now, get rid of it. Callelinea 20:37, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Weak keep if anyone wants to do it carefully; a preliminary scan of the google results show there seem to be several genuine news stories in independent RSs (albeit local one) among all the political blogs. There was in fact already a reference, so those saying there were none may not have read the article carefully--It did not show prominently in a separate section, so I formatted it. the WP article for some reason leaves out what seems to be the reason for the interest--a party switch in 2006 (I added it on the basis of that reference). I wonder who wrote it. DGG (talk) 01:11, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep per DGG. The above "delete" comments were all made prior to the addition of sources to the article (see diff). The article now cites 4 distinct sources, three of which seem to be independent, and two of which seem to provide significant coverage (these two). Being a political candidate does not make a personal inherently notable, but it also does not make someone inherently non-notable, which two of the "delete" recommendations and the nomination suggest. Black Falcon (Talk) 22:34, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
    • Note: I have converted the cached references with <ref> tags so that they are more easily identifiable. Black Falcon (Talk) 22:37, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
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.