Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Desmond Silveira

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. Killiondude (talk) 06:21, 12 May 2018 (UTC)

Desmond Silveira

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Not a notable political candidate (of the American Solidarity Party); doesn't meet WP:NPOL. power~enwiki (π, ν) 04:58, 5 May 2018 (UTC)

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. MT Train^Talk 06:51, 5 May 2018 (UTC)

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of California-related deletion discussions. MT Train^Talk 06:51, 5 May 2018 (UTC)

• Delete clear WP:NPOL failure, nothing else to support WP:GNG. SportingFlyer talk 06:56, 5 May 2018 (UTC)
• Delete per nomination. Three of the sources cited are blogs, religious websites, and a state announcement of all candidacies; the Los Angeles Times one simply mentions the subject's name in a list titled "The rest of the field." Ran WP:BEFORE and only found primary sources (e.g. here) or letters to the local newspaper. -The Gnome (talk) 07:31, 5 May 2018 (UTC)
• Delete. As always, unelected candidates for office do not get Wikipedia articles just for being candidates per se — if you cannot demonstrate and reliably source that he has preexisting notability for some other reason besides being a candidate, then he has to win the election, not just run in it, to clear the notability bar as a politician. But not only does this article not demonstrate any preexisting notability for prior endeavours, it doesn't even try. Bearcat (talk) 16:53, 5 May 2018 (UTC)
• Delete fails WP:NPOL; no other source of notability found in searches of his quite unique name.E.M.Gregory (talk) 13:53, 6 May 2018 (UTC)
• Keep. Some new sources have been added, including a mention of Silveira in the Modesto Bee. Silveira is a minor candidate, but unlike some of the others mentioned in the Los Angeles Times article he is the nominee of an actual political party. The American Solidarity Party article shows that in the 2016 presidential election, the party's nominee was certified as a write-in in eighteen states (including California), and on the ballot in Colorado. So while not every candidate is notable, being the nominee of this party in California suffices for notability. — Lawrence King ^(talk) 22:12, 7 May 2018 (UTC)

The mention is in a letter to the editor: hardly significant, and your assumption would make most if not all minor candidates presumptively notable. SportingFlyer talk 05:50, 8 May 2018 (UTC)

• Delete candidates for governor are not default notable, nothing else makes him notable. Even being a nominee of a major party is not normally enough to make someone notable.John Pack Lambert (talk) 21:30, 8 May 2018 (UTC)
• Redirect to California gubernatorial election, 2018, the primary reason Silveira has any coverage at all. There is no significant, third party coverage in reliable, independent sources. The Modesto Bee source is a letter to the editor. Primary sources (e.g. interview in Imago Dei Politics) do not count towards notability. Being included in a list of 27 gubernatorial candidates does not establish independent notability. --Animalparty! (talk) 22:52, 11 May 2018 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.