Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/David R. Smith

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The result of the debate was delete. --Ryan Delaney ^talk 05:37, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

David R. Smith

Non-notable politician. Only ran for one office, in 2005, garnering 0.8% of the vote in the June primaries. ral315 18:13, August 8, 2005 (UTC)

• Delete non-notable Soltak 18:46, 8 August 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. My dad ran as an independent a few years back and got 8%, and even he isn't anywhere close to deserving an article.--Frag 21:13, August 8, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete Wikipedia is an encyclopedia not a repository of every fact known to mankind. Gaius Cornelius 15:28, 9 August 2005 (UTC)
• Keep strongly. Proposer has moved that Smith and other candidates in the June 14th primary be removed on the grounds they did not do well. He has an article so to make a complete record of the election. I do not think it fair to decide legitimate candidates for an important office do not merit articles because they did not do well in the campaign. Some of those he proposes for deletion have won local offices (e.g. Eric Minamyer) and if we delete them, then we'll have to prevent nearly all local officials from getting any attention at all. PedanticallySpeaking 14:45, August 9, 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete. PS -- the purpose of wiki is not to provide people with attention. Sdedeo 18:38, 9 August 2005 (UTC)
• Delete for reasons stated at Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Peter Fossett. -R. fiend 15:58, 9 August 2005 (UTC)
• Keep or Merge for reasons given at Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/Peter_Fossett. --JamesB3 16:21, 10 August 2005 (UTC)
• Delete Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 23:41, August 10, 2005 (UTC)
• [s]Merge. See opinion on VfD/Peter Fossett (I wish these had all been listed together, or something). Aerion//talk 04:00, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
• Delete--candidates this minor are not notable. There's no way he deserves his own article, as opposed to being mentioned in a table listing the results. Meelar (talk) 13:42, August 11, 2005 (UTC)

Keep. Agree with PedanticallySpeaking.

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