Deletion of Sean Parnell (Pennsylvania politician)

Comment: to 2020 United States House of Representatives elections in Pennsylvania#District 17|election page/sub-section. Fails  and 
Stance: merge
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:GNG||WP:NPOL)

Comment: The question in my mind is whether the subject meets uthor. Outlaw Platoon is a memoir, which is increasingly citied in academic works (from a https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/armylaw2014&div=55&id=&page= review in "The Army Lawyer" to being used as an https://sjms.nu/articles/10.31374/sjms.7/print/ exemplar of military narrative in the Scandinavian Journal of Military Studies). Certainly all of this points toward the book being notable. While in certain cases it is possible to separate the book from the author, the memoir format of the subject's work and the fact that the subject is the author of three additional works published by William Morrow and Company makes the subject notable for being an author (see https://oklahoman.com/article/5608986/oklahoman-book-review-man-of-war-by-sean-parnell this review
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Attribution (WP:A)

Comment: obviously without prejudice against recreation after election day if he wins. It is not Wikipedia's job to maintain articles about as yet unelected candidates in future elections: the rule is not that all of the candidates get articles now and then after election day we delete the ones who lost, it is that we wait until the election is over before we ''start'' articles about any of the new winners. Wikipedia is |not an advertising platform for aspiring future notables to publicize themselves or their campaigns — and simply having spoken at the convention is not in and of itself a notability criterion either. Anybody who watched the speech and wanted to find out who this guy is will find his campaign materials and campaign coverage on the web as it is, so there's no need for us to suspend our rules in order to curate that content for them. We don't do "temporary notability pending the outcome of a future event that may or may not erase it" — we wait until his passage of a ''permanent'' notability criterion has ''already'' been ''secured'' before he's allowed to have an article, and for politicians that means ''holding'' a notable political office and not just running for one
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (WP:NOTADVERT)

Comment: In recent years, I am an infrequent Wikipedia editor. I created this page, not because I'm especially interested in the topic, but because I saw this person giving a speech at the 2020 RNC and wondered to myself, "who the hell is this guy?" I turned to Wikipedia, as I usually do, but when I searched for the gentleman's name, I found an article for an identically-named Alaskan politician, and spent more than several seconds, somewhat confused, wondering, "who the hell is this ''other'' guy?" Once I realized that there is a ''second'' living Sean Parnell|American politician with an identical name, I |set out to fix this issue for the next reader. If readers can more easily access relevant verified knowledge, Wikipedia has been improved
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Be bold (WP:BOLD)

Comment: I would normally say delete per  and , except it seems plausible that this person meets , no? There looks to be substantial coverage of his book, ''Outlaw Platoon'', like https://www.post-gazette.com/books/2012/02/26/Outlaw-Platoon-Murrysville-native-describes-the-Afghan-war-he-fought/stories/201202260527 here in the ''Pittsburgh Post-Gazette'' and https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/sean-parnell/outlaw-platoon/ here in ''Kirkus Reviews
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Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:NPOL||WP:POLOUTCOMES||WP:AUTHOR)