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Ashwani Jain

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Fails WP:NPOL. A two-time candidate for office in Maryland that has never held office. Many of the sources on the page are either self-published sources (including Jain's Medium, Twitter, and YouTube accounts, or local blogs about Maryland politics run by a single person) or coverage from his unsuccessful run for governor in 2022. Y2hyaXM (talk) 14:22, 4 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: People and Politicians. Y2hyaXM (talk) 14:22, 4 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Keep While I do understand where you both come from, I would argue that Jain's campaign was unique under the categorization of his age. I think this highlight has not been made to a satisfactory extent so I will work on that.

In terms of sources, I think that was primarily just because of the ease of access that comes with Google searching, there are large numbers of articles and other pieces of media that do cover Jain, but because the campaign is over, his personal accounts now are showcased first. Let me incorporate some of those pieces into the page and see if we can come to a consensus after that. Piggo2020 (talk) 13:50, 6 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. As always, people do not get Wikipedia articles just for running as candidates in elections they lost — the notability test for politicians is holding a notable political office, not just running for one, while a candidate gets into Wikipedia only if either (a) he has some other claim of notability that would already have gotten him an article on those other grounds anyway, or (b) the article can show a credible reason why his candidacy should be seen as a special case of significantly greater notability than most other people's candidacies. But this isn't really demonstrating either of those things, and is based too heavily on primary sources, which aren't support for notability at all, and run of the mill campaign coverage of the type that every candidate in every election always gets, which don't constitute evidence that he's more special than all of the other candidates who also got similar coverage. Bearcat (talk) 15:51, 4 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Maryland-related deletion discussions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 08:00, 5 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: Agree with nom in whole. Nothing here to meet WP:GNG or WP:NPOL. Running for office does not lend to inherent notability. User:Let'srun 15:28, 5 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]