Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sam Robb

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The result was delete. Sandstein 21:11, 31 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Sam Robb

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Non-notable political candidate, fails WP:NPOL and WP:GNG, sources consist of mostly primary sources, the secondary sources present are all passing mentions with the exception of one, which is a “local man runs for X” story in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. Article has previously been PRODed, which was removed by the creator. Suggest a redirect to 2020 Libertarian Party presidential primaries#Eliminated during Nomination round. Devonian Wombat (talk) 08:01, 24 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 14:23, 24 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 14:23, 24 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 14:24, 24 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Pennsylvania-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 14:24, 24 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Delete, without prejudice against recreation of a redirect (but delete first, so that there's nothing for people who like to ignore consensus to revert.) As always, people do not get Wikipedia articles just for being unsuccessful candidates in political party primaries per se — unsuccessful political candidates get articles only if they can either (a) demonstrate that they already had preexisting notability for other reasons that would already have gotten them an article anyway (e.g. Cynthia Nixon), or (b) show such an unusual depth and range and volume of reliable source coverage that they can credibly claim to be much more special than other non-winning candidates (e.g. Christine O'Donnell). But 10 of the 16 footnotes here are primary sources that are not support for notability at all — and virtually right across the board, the few sources that actually represent real media coverage are not about him, but just glancingly namecheck his existence in coverage of the primary as a whole. There's only one source here that's actually about Sam Robb for the purposes of counting for anything toward GNG, but one source is not enough to pass GNG all by itself. Bearcat (talk) 15:22, 24 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete As stated per Bearcat Pennsylvania2 (talk) 19:20, 25 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete a non-notable unelected candidate for public office.John Pack Lambert (talk) 14:06, 26 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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