Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rob Zerban

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Delete or Redirect. The first is that he was a member of the Kenosha County Board of Commissioners. Local politicians are not automatically notable, nor are they not automatically not notable. Reasons a local politician could be notable are longevity in service (Robert L. Butler, Margaret Doud, or Hilmar Moore) or notable activity in office (Betty Loren-Maltese or Rita Crundwell), the latter of which is probably more a WP:CRIME who was also a politician. The second is his candidacies for Congress. I simply do not see the "historic significance" test being passed here given the last election was over ten years ago at this point. A clear failure of WP:POLITICIAN. Similar AfDs resulted in a delete/redirect in Andy Anderson, Bill Proctor, Veron Parker, and Steve Sarvi. Mpen320 (talk) 21:29, 5 December 2024 (UTC)

• Delete - fails our threshold levels of :WP:POLITICIAN. (Full disclosure: I may have donated some money to one or more of his Congressional races, since I despise his opponent.) --Orange Mike | Talk 21:52, 5 December 2024 (UTC)
• Weak keep - arguably passes WP:SIGCOV. Bearian (talk) 16:45, 6 December 2024 (UTC)
• It is generally understood that routine mention or even interviews of unsuccessful candidates by local press does not really constitute significant coverage of the individual as an individual. --Orange Mike | Talk 18:49, 6 December 2024 (UTC) (unsuccessful candidate in the past)
• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Businesspeople, Politicians, Illinois, and Wisconsin. Skynxnex (talk) 00:03, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

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Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗plicit 23:50, 12 December 2024 (UTC)

• Delete Not quite the coverage for a local politician to meet WP:NPOL. Most of the coverage on him appears to be related to his failed congressional runs. TulsaPoliticsFan (talk) 23:58, 14 December 2024 (UTC)
• I'm persuaded to go along with delete. Bearian (talk) 05:55, 19 December 2024 (UTC)

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