Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nickolas Wildstar

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The result was delete and redirect to 2018 California gubernatorial election. And will salt per request. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 19:20, 3 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Nickolas Wildstar

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Poorly referenced WP:BLP of a person notable only as an unsuccessful candidate for political office. As always, this is not grounds for a Wikipedia article in and of itself -- the notability test at WP:NPOL is holding a notable political office, not just running for one, and candidates qualify for articles only if they can be properly demonstrated as having had preexisting notability in another field of endeavour independently of running for office. The article is also not based on any evidence of reliable source coverage to establish his notability, either: two of the footnotes are his own self-published campaign video on YouTube, one is his campaign website, one is an endorsement on the self-published website of his own political party, and the one that looked on first glance like a real media outlet has a "This post was contributed by a community member. The views expressed here are the author's own." disclaimer on top of it, which means it's a user-generated citizen journalism platform rather than notability-building media coverage. Furthermore, there's been editwarring here: this was first created as an article in August 2017, then redirected to the election he was running in at that time in September, then reverted back to a standalone article again in October, then redirected again in January 2018, at which point it stayed a redirect until the past 24 hours, upon which there's been an article-vs-redirect editwar today. Again, candidates do not get articles just for being candidates, and that goes especially for candidates who have to rely on their own self-published campaign literature to source an article with -- if he wins the election in November, then he'll qualify for an article, but he is not entitled to have one just for declaring himself a candidate.
I also wouldn't object to just restoring the redirect, but the edit history should still be deleted first so that there's no old content for anybody to attempt to revert-war over. Bearcat (talk) 16:49, 26 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 16:49, 26 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of California-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 16:49, 26 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Delete and Redirect per Bearcat. The subject dosen't presently meet the standards of WP:GNG or WP:NPOL. Sal2100 (talk) 17:04, 26 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: Rationale is air-tight, and worth noting the user who create the wiki is user:GovernorWildstar. Goddamn politicans. I have no opinion on the redirect. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tautomers (talk • contribs) 21:07, 26 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as per nom. Meets neither GNG or NPOL. I would also recommend salting. Onel5969 ^{TT me} 23:47, 26 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: I second the salting recommendation. Tautomers_{(T C)} 02:16, 27 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Delete and Redirect to 2018 California Gubernatorial Election as a usual and appropriate outcome per WP:POLOUTCOMES. --Enos733 (talk) 00:24, 27 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete and Redirect to 2018 California Gubernatorial Election as per above and WP:Poloutcomes. Jaysonsands (talk) 05:12, 27 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, Redirect, and Salt Word-for-word description of WP:POLOUTCOMES. Page creator is obviously problematic as well. Salting would prevent overeager supporters.
Delete per WP:GNG, non-notable candidate. No issue with redirects as long as he's actually listed on the page we're redirecting to. SportingFlyer T·C 22:39, 28 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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