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The result was redirect to Independent Party of Delaware. (non-admin closure) CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 05:16, 12 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

David Graham (US politician)[edit]

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WP:BLP of a person whose only stated claim of notability is running for political office and losing. As always, this is not a claim of notability that passes WP:NPOL -- a person has to hold office, not just run for it, to be considered notable as a politician, but this makes no other claim that he had preexisting notability for any other reason. And for referencing, this is based entirely on primary and routine sources except for one brief biographical blurb in an omnibus compilation of biographical blurbs for all of the candidates in the election he lost (none of whom but the winner have articles either) -- so there's no evidence of enough substantive reliable source coverage about him to pass WP:GNG in lieu. Bearcat (talk) 00:04, 5 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Delete a non-notable politician.John Pack Lambert (talk) 00:13, 5 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Fails WP:POLITICIAN. Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 00:28, 5 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Regards, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga (talk • mail) 02:10, 5 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. Regards, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga (talk • mail) 02:10, 5 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Not a notable politician, at least at this stage. Fails WP:POLITICIAN. May be if the subject gains some popularity or gets elected to a notable office, the article can exist. But for now it is WP:TOOSOON. Regards, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga (talk • mail) 02:13, 5 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to Independent Party of Delaware, where he is mentioned as part of the party's history. Reasonable redirect to a suitable target. - The Bushranger _{One ping only} 02:48, 5 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Riderect I think redirect too will be better since it is WP:CHEAP and the hit of his search shows he is likely to be searched here, though he didn't meet WP:N guideline here (and there is chance he might in future) — Ammarpad (talk) 14:22, 6 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to Independent Party of Delaware as above. A perfectly reasonable search term. Dysklyver 23:08, 6 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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