Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Antonio Delgado (politician)

Antonio Delgado (politician)

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Subject is a lawyer who has not held any political position, who is a candidate presenting New York's 19th congressional district in coming November 2018 general election.
Fails on the ground of WP:NPOL -sources are mainly routine election coverage as would be same in all candidates. If subject win the general election in Nov then recreate the page would be welcome but not until then. CASSIOPEIA^(talk) 08:13, 29 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

*Comment:Page passes WP:N as sources meet the "significant coverage" requirement stipulated in WP:N. Furthermore, subject just won the Democratic primary and has become the Democratic nominee to the office. CASSIOPEIA's reasoning would hold merit if this were before the primary; however, the subject being the nominee - in addition to the sources passing WP:N - creates sufficient notability to warrant the page's continued existence. Raider1918 (talk) 18:38, 29 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

*Comment: (Note wording in WP:NPOL as cited by CASSIOPEIA: "page can still be notable if they meet the primary notability criterion of "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject of the article." Subject clearly passes this test.) Raider1918 (talk) 18:40, 29 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. CASSIOPEIA^(talk) 08:14, 29 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of New York-related deletion discussions. CASSIOPEIA^(talk) 08:14, 29 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Strong delete The claims that Delgado somehow passes notability are inherently flawed. All the coverage of Delgado is in light of his run for office. This is not enough to give him notability. A candidate for office has to be notable for something else to keep the article. Every candidate for office gets significant coverage in some publications indepent of the candidate, but that does not mean they are notable.John Pack Lambert (talk) 20:56, 30 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
John Pack Lambert's claims make no reference to Wikipedia policy on notability and instead merely make subjective claims about his personal threshold for "notability." Raider1918 (talk) 00:40, 1 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Furthermore, John Pack Lambert seems to omit the critical fact that Delgado won the primary election and is the Democratic nominee. He is not simply "any candidate." There is a great difference in degree of notability between any candidate who chooses to enter a race and one who successfully becomes the party's nominee (on that note, there are many Wikipedia pages about unsuccessful candidates for public office, whose only claim to notability are their public office campaigns - see, for example, Jim Rogers). Raider1918 (talk) 00:59, 1 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]