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The result was delete. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 19:28, 20 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Jim Esch[edit]

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Fails WP:POLITICIAN. Lost two congressional elections, but I can find no indications of notability outside of his past candidacy. Marquardtika (talk) 16:10, 13 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. MassiveYR ♠ 16:23, 13 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Nebraska-related deletion discussions. MassiveYR ♠ 16:23, 13 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. People do not automatically get Wikipedia articles just for being candidates — he needs to win the election, not just run in it, to clear WP:NPOL, and the only other alternative is to show that he got substantially more and wider reliable source coverage than most candidates get, thus making his candidacy significantly more notable than most other people's candidacies. But that's not in evidence here at all; the article's only "sources" are primary source verifications of the type that every candidate always has. Bearcat (talk) 18:22, 13 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. No evidence for notability. JoJo Anthrax (talk) 19:00, 13 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Delete defeated congressional candidates, even ones who lost multiple elections, are non-notable, unless they have some other claim to notability (such as being a member of a state legislature).John Pack Lambert (talk) 04:37, 16 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as per above. power~enwiki (π, ν) 15:57, 16 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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