Deletion of Maryanne Connelly

Comment: Seeing the breadth and scope of sources about Connelly in the media and press more than meets the standards of notability. Sadly, if the nominator had performed the search for potential additional sources as required by , we wouldn't be wasting our time here. The nominator seems to be so dead-set in devoting time to almost exclusively to deletion that the time necessary to consider possible improvements is absent. Were this editor to have any real experience in creating and improving articles, we might see some greater level of discernment between those articles that merit deletion, and those like this one that don't. In dealing with deletion of articles, |competence is required; it sadly appears to be absent here
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion (WP:BEFORE||WP:CIR)

Comment: nbsp; Mayors are inherently part of a larger topic on Wikipedia, in this case Fanwood, New Jersey, so Wikipedia's notability is ''never'' a threshold for inclusion given  and .&nbsp; Given the additional reliable sources, being a losing candidate for a congress increases the possibility of notability.&nbsp; We have six different articles with coverage of the topic.&nbsp; This particular candidate's experiences as a female candidate in 2000 are mentioned in a string of Google Books leading up to 2016.&nbsp; A WP:BEFORE D1 snippet from Google news I found interesting: It is from Slate magazine, 22 November 2011, http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2011/11/elizabeth_warren_ad_from_karl_rove_s_crossroads_gps_pac_how_political_attack_ads_against_men_and_women_differ.html How to Hit a Woman: In 2000, during a Democratic congressional primary in New Jersey, a female candidate named Maryanne Connelly was portrayed in a radio ad as a contestant on a game show. Asked a policy question, the voice playing Connelly replied, “Ooh, that's hard.” Regarding the NOW Women of Courage Award, http://www.jstor.org/stable/20837389 is a link found in Google scholar with a snippet saying, "Amidst gearing up for a new wave of leadership and fine-tuning the organization's rejuvenated voice, NOW members honored Maryanne Connelly, a feminist
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Article size (WP:SPINOUT||WP:ATD)