Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jack Knoxville

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was Delete. The consensus below is that this person is not notable. Eluchil404 (talk) 04:06, 8 October 2015 (UTC) [reply]

Jack Knoxville

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Article about a mayoral candidate, supported by a few mentions in a local newspaper. Fails WP:BASIC and WP:POLITICIAN. - Mr X 18:27, 29 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Everymorning (talk) 18:53, 29 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Unelected candidates for office do not get articles just for being candidates, per WP:NPOL — if you cannot make and properly source a credible claim that he would already have been eligible for a Wikipedia article for some other reason before becoming a candidate for office, then he does not become notable enough for a Wikipedia article until he wins the election. Delete, without prejudice against recreation in the future if he wins. Bearcat (talk) 23:32, 29 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
This is the first transgender politician to run for office in Knoxville, TN and therefore, this page is of historical value. Chiefchimp (talk) 19:49, 30 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

If he were the first transgender person ever to run for office anywhere in the entire United States, you might have a point (although even that wouldn't be an automatic inclusion freebie, if the sourcing for it were this weak.) "The first transgender person to run for office in one specific city", however, does not constitute a reason why somebody gets a permanent article in an international encyclopedia. And even a person who did pass one of our "automatic in" criteria still wouldn't get to keep an article that parked its sourcing on WP:BLOGS and Facebook posts and the local pennysaver — it takes reliable source coverage in real media to get a person in here. Bearcat (talk) 01:41, 1 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Delete fails WP:BLPNOTE, fails WP:NPOL. If the claim is that the first transgender politician to run for office in Knoxville is historical, maybe that one sentence belongs in a history of Knoxville, but I don't think so. Who was the first Irishman to run for Mayor of Knoxville? Who was the first black man to run for Mayor of Knoxville? Elected is an entirely different question. --Bejnar (talk) 18:57, 4 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Tennessee-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 05:00, 5 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete for now as I'm not seeing much to suggest keeping. SwisterTwister talk 07:30, 7 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - Fails WP:GNG and WP:NPOL. Onel5969 ^{TT me} 13:29, 7 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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