Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Draft:Alyse Galvin

Draft:Alyse Galvin

Before my rationale, two points. First, I've seen a lot of suspicious editing activity in the weeks leading up to the election which gives cause to discuss exactly what Wikipedia's purpose is anymore. Second, there is a centralized discussion currently ongoing related to content of this sort at Wikipedia talk:Notability (people)#Centralized discussion on the notability of political candidates which could have an effect on this MFD. The creator of this draft has been busy as of late creating biographical content in a similar vein. I still believe the topic to be non-notable, though. Don Young's 1998 opponent, Jim Duncan, was a state representative for 12 years and a state senator for another 12. His 1978 opponent, Pat Rodey, was a state senator for 18 years. His 1976 opponent, Eben Hopson, was also a state senator but otherwise notable for numerous other events in his life, including his role in the founding of the North Slope Borough. The community has actively resisted efforts to expand our coverage to include topics such as these, for no reason that I can see other than the fact that they have not been the subject of today's headlines within Wikipedia's lifetime (Hopson died in 1980, so that should be quite obvious in his case). Moving forward to this decade, we have an article on Young's 2014 opponent, Forrest Dunbar, primarily due to his election to Anchorage's equivalent of a city council, with the smattering of headlines he received during the 2014 campaign being used in part to justify his notability. In reality, Dunbar is a person affiliated with a certain political consultant, one of many associated with that consultant to receive greatly puffed-up coverage here during the past 5–6 years, while coverage of other Alaska political figures with far greater accomplishments has languished. A look at the state of the governor-elect's article first thing this morning should make that obvious. Now it appears that we have an attempt to engage in similar puffery with Galvin, merely because a few pollsters convinced a few media outlets to speculate that she had a chance to defeat Young. As results reflecting most votes counted shows, affirmed by a third-party reliable source, she didn't really come close. To make matters worse, I just previewed this MFD and the draft's creator is attempting to whitewash the whole affair in the time it took me to write this rationale. I may have more to say, but it appears that I need to save this right now before that happens. RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions 00:46, 8 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Keep She just won 46% of the vote in a race for the U.S. House of Representatives for the sole seat from a U.S. state. That's hardly what we would expect from a fringe candidate. Shock Brigade Harvester Boris (talk) 01:38, 8 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]