Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Andre Barnett
to United States presidential election, 2012. I'm afraid I have to disagree with Cullen and Carrite and, in fact, would say that their keep votes have no basis in policy. I would be strongly opposed to US Presidential candidates having any special treatment or lower notability threshold. Ah, but you might say, the US Presidential election is the most important one in the electoral calendar. Well probably, but it's for that very reason that candidates for President don't need any special treatment. It's precisely because the election is so important that we don't need anything other than . The importance of the election means that there will be far more written about it than other elections. As a result there will already be thousands of English language sources dealing with the election. If in all those sources, there is not enough to scrape together an independent biography, then we can say with near certainty that the candidate is not at this time notable. That situation may change later in the year and for that reason I'd go for a redirect, so that the article can easily be recreated if the subject does meet notability criteria later
— User:Valenciano, 13:07, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
Stance: merge
Cited policy: WP:GNG (Wikipedia:Notability)