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The result was delete. Malcolmxl5 ( talk) 01:29, 28 April 2018 (UTC)
Jake Ellis
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WP:BLP of a person notable only as a not yet elected candidate in a future election. As always, this is not a notability claim that gets a person into Wikipedia in and of itself -- he has to win the seat and thereby hold the office, not just run as a candiate, to be considered notable as a politician, and absent that he has to already have preexisting notability for other reasons. But this makes no such claim -- the only other thing this article says about him is that he's a retired batallion chief for a local fire department, which is not a role that would have gotten him an encyclopedia article, and the only sources present are his own campaign Facebook page and Ballotpedia, which are not notability-assisting sources. As always, no prejudice against recreation after election day if he wins, but nothing here qualifies him to already have an article today. Bearcat ( talk) 23:36, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Bearcat ( talk) 23:37, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Idaho-related deletion discussions. MT Train Talk 03:14, 21 April 2018 (UTC)
- Delete: Clearly fails WP:NPOLITICIAN. ErieSwiftByrd ( talk) 05:25, 21 April 2018 (UTC)
- Delete: Agree with ErieSwiftByrd. Swissarmysalad ( talk) 04:54, 22 April 2018 (UTC)
May I suggest the article be returned to draft status pending the result of the November ballot. ( talk) 0230, 22 April 2018 (UTC)
- No, we don't retain articles about as yet unelected candidates in draft form either — if we did, then every candidate in every election would always have to have one, and draftspace would become exactly the repository of campaign brochures for aspiring future notables that our notability requirements for politicians are intentionally designed to prevent Wikipedia from becoming. If he wins the seat in November, Wikipedia administrators have the ability to undelete the article with one click on a button, so the work won't be lost entirely. Bearcat ( talk) 15:33, 22 April 2018 (UTC)
- Delete fails WP:NPOLITICIAN. E.M.Gregory ( talk) 20:10, 27 April 2018 (UTC)
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