Deletion of Elliot Ross Buckley

Comment: as failed candidates are '''not''' automatically notable for that non-accomplishment. The plethora of non-notable biographies that this article's author continues to cut and paste into Wikipedia is frankly saddening. |Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate dictionary of biography of every two-bit politician of the last century in two U.S. states
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (WP:NOT)

Comment: He did more than that, he ran for a US House of Representatives seat, and also for Mayor of New Orleans. I don't believe this is violation of . If you do a google search, see http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1T4HPIA_en___US220&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=Elliot+Ross+Buckley&spell=1 here, you will see there are about 1,100,000 results. Granted not all of those are of this person, but I would think a good portion are
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:BIO)

Comment: under  - the most notable thing I can find on the guy is that he served on the US Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission in the 80s, and that commission doesn't have a Wikipedia page itself.  Other than that, losing a political race and being an oil company lawyer doesn't make him notable enough
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:BIO)

Comment: Being simply a nominee for office does not constitute notability per , nor does the OSHRC office.  Also of note is that almost the entire article is ''unsourced'' from |reliable sources.  The article reads like an obituary because that is the only source for almost all of it: his obituary.  The author of this article frequently creates articles about non-notable individuals and sources those articles with nothing (or almost nothing) more than the individual's family-provided, small-town newspaper obituary.  While reporter bylined obituaries (such as those found in the ''New York Times'') would be acceptable sources, family-provided obituaries in small newspapers are not.  Such family-provided obituaries do not indicate notability (anyone can submit one; they indicate that his family thought he was notable, but not that anyone else thought so), nor are they reliable sources, because they are not subjected to any extensive fact-checking by a reporter or editor. If what the family says seems plausible, then it runs.  This appears to be the case with Buckley's obituary listed as a reference for this article, since there is no reporter listed as the obituary's author, and since the ''Las Cruces Sun-News'' is indeed a small newspaper that accepts and runs family-provided obituaries.  If the article is kept, it should be reduced to a stub of info that is verifiable from sources ''other'' than that obituary:  cousin of WFB Jr., that he ran for congress, that he ran for mayor, his tenure on the OSHRC, and that's about it
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:BIO||WP:RS)