Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Eric Leys

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The result was delete. Jujutacular (talk) 04:41, 6 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Eric Leys

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WP:BLP of a person with no strong claim of notability under WP:NPOL. The highest office he's held is on a local school board, and the only other substantive thing here is that he was briefly a candidate in a party primary for a state senate election but didn't win the nomination. About half the sourcing here is primary or unreliable, further, while the legitimate reliable sourcing is exclusively local, and fails to nationalize sufficiently to demonstrate that he warrants coverage in an international encyclopedia. NPOL does not confer notability on school board officers or on unsuccessful candidates in party primaries, and the article does not make any real claim that he's notable for anything else besides that. Delete. Bearcat (talk) 23:48, 29 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Delete The nominator is entirely correct. He fails WP:POLITICIAN. Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 05:17, 30 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Unless there are some WP:RS that are not local.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 13:13, 1 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. Toffanin (talk) 07:54, 30 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Toffanin (talk) 07:55, 30 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. In addition to service to local school board, he was elected as an Alternate Delegate (and most votes in a huge Congressional district) for the 2012 Republican National Convention, which is a National Party office. Furthermore, a HighBeam search returns a result of 98 articles over a 15-year period which passes the threshold of widespread media coverage. Jeva178 (talk) 06:12, 2 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

"Convention delegate" is not something that passes our notability criteria for politicians. The president of the Republican Party gets over NPOL as a national party office, obviously — but every individual delegate or alternate delegate to the convention does not. Bearcat (talk) 20:51, 2 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

All Congressional districts in the United States have roughly equal populations. Accordingly, there is no such thing as a "huge" Congressional district in this context. Alternate convention delegates are pretty much the opposite of notable. Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 07:47, 5 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Illinois-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 01:57, 4 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - Pretty easy call, unelected politician if one tosses out the school board post. It's a pretty page, meant to be such because it is a political ad of sorts. Fails WP:POLITICIAN. Carrite (talk) 04:23, 5 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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