Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dwight Grotberg

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 keep. Can't sleep, clown will eat me 23:23, 18 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Delete, Yet another political hopeful who does not satisfy WP:BIO nor WP:C&E. Vectro 17:25, 13 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete I'm generally in favor of keeping candidates when their elections are close but the probabiity that this candidate will win is close to 0. If that unlikely event occurs we can always undelete it. JoshuaZ 19:22, 13 October 2006 (UTC) Changing from delete to weak keep Sholom's point about a statewide primary has merit. The candidate is for a Senate seat, not a represtantive seat. JoshuaZ 20:16, 13 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

• Strong Keep Until today I had never seen an AfD for a major party candidate for the US Senate. Now I've seen two of them! This is getting out of hand. (By "this" I mean: finding articles on challenger candidates to delete). -- Sholom 19:57, 13 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep Meets WP:BIO. Nomination seems like an obvious political maneuver. Annasweden 20:12, 13 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment Nomination is unlikely to be political, and a bit of WP:AGF might be in order. Furthermore note that candidates from both parties have been nominated for deletion so there isn't much basis at calling it "political maneuver"
• Abstain for now. I'm generally inclusionist, and this is, after all, the candidate of one of the two major parties for one of only 33 Senate elections in all 50 states in 2006. North Dakota United States Senate election, 2006 exists as suggested at proposed guideline at Wikipedia:Candidates and elections, maybe that's enough or maybe not. That WP:C&E prerequisite has been met, and nominator gave no reason for not meeting WP:C&E. OTOH, I am a North Dakota voter with a reasonable interest in politics, it's 25 days before the election, and I knew nothing about him. Gene Nygaard 20:24, 13 October 2006 (UTC) Keep Gene Nygaard 22:48, 13 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Strong keep I can't understand the notion behind deleting a major party Senate candidate. --MatthewUND^(talk) 22:27, 13 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep senate canidates with party nomination are notable. Arbusto 04:48, 15 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Upon Nygaard's comment, I'd suggest merge and redirect to North Dakota United States Senate election, 2006. That article is barely more than a stub, and could easily contain the limited information from this article. Also, those who claim that candidates with party nomination are notable by definition are encouraged to read WP:C&E (and it's talk page). Also, WP:BIO and others suggest that a person should get an article only if they will remain notable for some time; someone who will drop off the radar if they fail should not get an article. Cheers, Vectro 01:26, 16 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep through the election, merge with the election article if he loses. --AlexWCovington (talk) 06:09, 16 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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.