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The result was redirect to 2022 Massachusetts gubernatorial election#Republican primary. Sandstein 19:30, 15 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Chris Doughty[edit]

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Advertorialized WP:BLP of a person notable only as an as yet non-winning candidate in a future election. As always, people do not get Wikipedia articles just for running as election candidates -- the notability test at WP:NPOL is holding a notable office, not just running for one, while a candidate must show that either (a) he has preexisting notability for other reasons that would already have gotten him into Wikipedia independently of a candidacy, or (b) there's a credible reason why even if he loses the election his campaign would still pass the ten year test for enduring significance anyway.
But that's not what's on offer here: it's written very like a campaign brochure (his positions on the issues, etc.) rather than an encyclopedia article, his prior career in business is referenced entirely to primary source business directories rather than WP:GNG-worthy media coverage about his business career, and the candidacy itself is referenced to two pieces of "person announces candidacy", which isn't enough coverage to make a candidate permanently notable all by itself since it doesn't establish why his candidacy should be seen as more special than everybody else's candidacies. Bearcat (talk) 18:05, 8 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 18:05, 8 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Massachusetts-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 18:05, 8 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 18:11, 8 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Redirect to 2022 Massachusetts gubernatorial election. Not independently notable. KidAd • SPEAK 00:36, 9 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete, then Redirect to 2022 Massachusetts gubernatorial election to get rid of the promotional campaign literature. Best, GPL93 (talk) 14:35, 9 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Redirect to 2022 Massachusetts gubernatorial election Djflem (talk) 14:39, 9 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Redirect to the already mentioned 2022 Massachusetts gubernatorial election. The article as it exists is very promotional and bare, plus all the other issues touched upon by Bearcat. SlackingViceroy (talk) 03:28, 13 February 2022 (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.