Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rick Crawford

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 delete as non-notable.

[edit] Rick Crawford

Article is about a politican who's run twice for the United States House of Representatives, but lost both times. Official website is down, and other notability is not asserted. Delete. D-Day 15:36, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

• KEEP. He may only be a footnote in history, but if he was on the ballot and references in reliable independent sources can be shown (presumably would have received press coverage as a result), the article can be edited to reflect his stature in the annals of American political history. --BaldDee 16:27, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
• Merge and Delete Merge what relevant info there is onto either Phil Gingrey or a related political page. While he passes noteability, there is an insufficient amount to say about him to warrant an entire article at the present time and it will likely never expand beyond a one paragraph stub. If at some point his noteability increases then the page could be recreated. WikipedianProlific^(Talk) 16:40, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
• Delete Is everyone who has ever lost a Congressional election notable? I don't think so. Many Vice-Presidents barely make it. MarkinBoston 17:51, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
• Delete, candidacy for Congress falls short of WP:BIO and there isn't much else here. If he gets into the Georgia House he can have an article. --Dhartung | Talk 22:23, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
• Argument in favor of my KEEP opinion. I never stated that merely as a candidate for office he was wiki-worthy (meaning "notable"). IMO, if he was on the ballot and references in reliable independent sources can be shown, the he meets the criteria set forth in WP:BIO. Dhartung is correct in stating that candidacy alone is insufficient to establish notability. Editors should be given the opportunity to reference sources. As a candidate, it is possible, even likely that there was some sort of featured article in a major newspaper, news website, or other independent relaible source. If those sources are indeed relaible, then he meets the criteria. BaldDee 11:59, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
• Delete non-notable. At the very least rename it to Rick Crawford (politician) so that the more notable race car driver with the same name can have this article title --rogerd 11:00, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Georgia (U.S. state)-related deletions. -- the wub "?!" 18:25, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politics-related deletions. -- the wub "?!" 18:25, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
• Keep. Anyone can run for office, but being a major party's nominee for the national legislature is sufficient for notability. JamesMLane t c 11:26, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

I don't think so. There have been many people who've run for Congress on a major party ticket and lost. Should we include every major political party also-ran on here? --D-Day 11:28, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Yes. It wouldn't be a high priority, and I don't think we need a Wikiproject to make sure they're all covered, but when an editor actually creates an article about such a person, it should remain (or at least shouldn't be deleted on grounds of notability). JamesMLane t c 12:32, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

A good example of this was Eric Dickerson (politician), that was once an article, and is now just a redirect to Indiana's 7th congressional district election, 2006. --rogerd 12:53, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

I think that's the best way to go. I really don't think just running for Congress itself is notable. Anybody can, including a sewer drain digger. Would we really need an article about him on Wikipedia if he didn't win? Absolutely not. --D-Day 21:42, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

• Delete: I see no fulfillment of notability standards: he's not held a high enough office, and the article does not provide sources to demonstrate his notability otherwise. Nyttend 12:57, 2 September 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.