Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Joe Mallahan
to Seattle mayoral election, 2009, since if this article is deleted then the election article will contain no information, and no bluelink, about the top runner up. Failing WP:POLITICIAN is not sufficient reason to delete an article. Simply scroll up a bit and read "People who meet the basic criteria may be considered notable without meeting the additional criteria below". Criteria like  or  or  exist as ''additional'' paths to keeping an article ''after'' they have failed  also known as . Mallahan is notable for spending three times as much money as McGinn, winning all the major endorsements including the Governor, Seattle Times, and more, and only losing by a small margin. This unusual race was covered non-locally, for example, ''http://www.economist.com/node/14803102 Money Can't Buy You Love; Mayoral Races'', The Economist, November 7, 2009, or D'Aprile, Shane. ''Washington'' Politics Magazine Nov.-Dec. 2009. We don't need to keep all the content from the Joe Mallahan bio, but keep enough to give a complete narrative of the 2009 election and results
— User:Dennis, 17:48, 13 October 2016 (UTC)
Stance: merge
Cited policy: WP:ANYBIO||WP:ARTIST||WP:NPOL||WP:BASIC||WP:GNG (Wikipedia:Notability)