Talk:Peter Buttigieg

Meets WP:Auto Standards?

Peter Buttigieg is not a notable person as per the WP:Auto standards. Buttigieg is only 28 years old and is running for his first elected office. There has been minimal media coverage sourced on the page and the coverage he has received has been obscure (the majority of the links are the party website and his own site). The information located on his page is comparable to his campaign website and is nothing more than a campaign ad. I recommend that this page be removed and replaced with a link to the Indiana State Treasurer Page if needed. Redwngr333 (talk) 17:31, 16 July 2010 (UTC)

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Pete Buttigieg has achieved sufficient notability so as to be included on wikipedia as per the Wiki notable person policy (I wrote the wikipedia, and I am not Pete Buttigieg by the way). He is one of the two candidates appearing on the ballot of a statewide office of Indiana, an office for which more than 1.5 million people cast their vote four years ago. There is a great deal of media coverage around the state, but seeing as it is statewide, a great deal of it is on smaller, local newspaper websites that do not allow for citation of their pages after a certain amount of them (when they archive them). All the articles can be found on the candidate's website, but I assumed wikipedia would frown on that repeated citation of the campaign website (which you'll note is only referenced ONCE, not multiple times, and that is to simply observe the candidate's business background). I'd also note that the party website is only cited once, simply to establish that he is in fact the Democratic candidate, which is hardly illegitimate. I'd reference you to another State Treasurer candidate with a wiki page that is not remotely controversial, Andrei Cherny, and would observe that his age is similar (even if it's not mentioned there), and his methods of citation are quite similar as well. Notwithstanding the fact that this candidate is a Rhodes Scholar, which is "a well-known and significant award or honor", there is plenty of news coverage to meet wikipedia's exacting standards, and examining the page reveals no significant bias in its writing. Hanumang06 (talk) 20:47, 19 July 2010 (UTC)

YES thanks, being a rhodes scholarship winner does not make you wiki notable either, and this exists it not a reason for more of that to exist, this person is not yet wikipedia notable, if he wins he will be, Off2riorob (talk) 20:48, 19 July 2010 (UTC)