Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Robert Gerald Lorge

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The result was snowwwbally delete. Max Semenik (talk) 08:30, 23 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Robert Gerald Lorge

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non notable campaign biography DGG ( talk ) 22:22, 21 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

delete Fails WP:POLITICIAN - a perennial candidate who has never won elected office; no coverage in local media (Google search shows largely self-published results); his candidacy is covered in related articles of winning candidates. 32.218.32.146 (talk) 22:35, 21 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: non-notable; using Wikipedia as webpage. Quis separabit? 22:43, 21 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom - JohnInDC (talk) 00:39, 22 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom-Thank you-RFD (talk) 07:43, 22 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Comprehensively fails the guidelines at both WP:GNG and WP:POLITICIAN. Has never held elected office, and no significant independent coverage about him, apart from his mention in a local press article about bee-keeping where he is described as "a perennial candidate". Voceditenore (talk) 13:13, 22 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Wisconsin-related deletion discussions. — JJMC89 (T·E·C) 03:00, 22 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. — JJMC89 (T·E·C) 03:00, 22 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - Looks like an attempt to create artificial notability. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 14:07, 22 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Comment I don't think it's "an attempt to create artificial notability". The article was created as a brief stub back in 2006 [1] by an editor who appears unrelated to the subject. In those days, before the notability criteria and BLP sourcing requirements were tightened up, it was fairly common for people to create articles for the candidates in US Senate elections regardless of whether they had previously held an elected office or were otherwise notable. There was quite a big debate about the issue around the time this article was created. See Wikipedia talk:Candidates and elections – Voceditenore (talk) 17:47, 22 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It was probably under the radar for those 6 years. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 20:12, 22 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

9 years, Bugs, it's 2015 :). I'm sure there are a lot of articles like this lying around from the 2006 US elections. They only show up on the radar when there's some sort of kerfuffle. Voceditenore (talk) 05:39, 23 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - Fails WP:POLITICIAN #3. --IJBall (contribs • talk) 15:36, 22 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, I don't see any personal notability here. GregJackP Boomer! 15:43, 22 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom; Google news is not offering up better sources. --Nat Gertler (talk) 16:33, 22 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Fails WP:BEEKEEPING. Oh, and WP:POLITICIAN. Mr Potto (talk) 17:39, 22 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom. At this point close per WP:SNOW.4meter4 (talk) 17:51, 22 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete and close deletion per WP:SNOW. Fails WP:GNG and WP:NPOLITICIAN. Joseph2302 (talk) 20:20, 22 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - per all above and WP:SNOW. MrScorch6200 (talk | ctrb) 22:44, 22 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - nominee, candidate, never held office, not notable. BMK (talk) 00:26, 23 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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