Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Evan Falchuk (2nd nomination)

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The result was redirect to United Independent Party. -- RoySmith (talk) 20:44, 28 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Evan Falchuk

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WP:BLP of a person whose only substantive claims of notability are as an unsuccessful candidate in an election and as the brother of a more notable television producer. While the content here is written differently enough from the original version that I can't justify speedying it as a recreation of deleted content, his notability hasn't gotten any stronger under WP:NPOL and the volume of sourcing still isn't enough to claim WP:GNG instead. It's still either a delete, or a revert back to the redirect that resulted from the first discussion. Bearcat (talk) 03:26, 12 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Redirect to United Independent Party, which does seem to pass the notability bar and already mentions the subject. PWilkinson (talk) 22:44, 18 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 03:40, 19 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - does not meet WP:NPOL or WP:GNG criteria.--Rpclod (talk) 20:36, 19 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Keep – has received significant coverage for his gubernatorial campaign as well as his efforts to get a statewide ballot question on the proposed 2024 Olympics. --Hirolovesswords (talk) 19:13, 20 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Most of the sourcing here just namechecks his existence in the process of failing to be about him — and the media are required to cover all candidates in an election taking place in their coverage area on "equal time" grounds, so campaign coverage falls under WP:ROUTINE unless it erupts into a firestorm on the order of what happened to Christine O'Donnell. If campaign coverage could get a person into Wikipedia in and of itself, we'd have to keep an article about every single person who ever ran for village dogcatcher. Bearcat (talk) 17:18, 21 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

[1] [2] [3] [4] all provide more than mere "namechecks". Furthermore, he has continued to receive coverage since his campaign [5] [6], which means, unlike "every single person who ever ran for village dogcatcher", he is notable enough for a standalone article. --Hirolovesswords (talk) 00:25, 22 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to United Independent Party - campaign statements are not creating notability for unelected candidates, the two sources taht mention him after the election are connected to his party activities, no stand-alone article warranted yet, per WP:NPOL, and fails WP:GNG Kraxler (talk) 18:33, 26 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to United Independent Party - He does not appear to be notable in his own right (most of the coverage is minor regarding him personally, and would be considered routine reporting of a candidate's details) PhantomSteve/talk|contribs\ 12:02, 28 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
As a lawyer, he would fail my standards. Delete. Bearian (talk) 13:30, 28 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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