Draft talk:Oliver Larkin
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I believe this article meets "notability"/sourcing criteria
[edit]I'm including quotes from the relevant Wikipedia guidelines that support the claim that this article meets the notability and reference criteria.
"Wikipedia:Notability (people)
Politicians and judges
• Major local political figures who have received significant press coverage. Just being an elected local official, an official in a state/province-wide political party, or an unelected candidate for political office, does not guarantee notability, although such people can still be notable if they meet the general notability guideline."
"General notability guideline
A topic is presumed to be suitable for a stand-alone article or list when it has received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject
...• "Significant coverage" addresses the topic directly and in detail, so that no original research is needed to extract the content. Significant coverage is more than a trivial mention, but it does not need to be the main topic of the source material
...• "Reliable" means that sources need editorial integrity to allow verifiable evaluation of notability, per the reliable source guideline. Sources may encompass published works in all forms and media, and in any language. Availability of secondary sources covering the subject is a good test for notability.
• "Sources" should be secondary sources. There is no fixed number of sources required since sources vary in quality and depth of coverage, but multiple sources are generally expected. Sources do have to be available online or written in English. Multiple publications from the same author or organization are usually regarded as a single source for the purposes of establishing notability. • "Independent of the subject" excludes works produced by the article's subject or someone affiliated with it. For example, advertising, press releases, autobiographies, and the subject's website are not considered independent."
- The references demonstrate significant coverage by reliable, secondary sources that are independent of the subject - therefor meeting the "general notability guideline" and disproving Dan arndt's comment, "Fails WP:NPOLITICIAN. Wikipedia does not support the posting of aspiring political candidates profiles." on 01:48, 20 April 2026 (UTC) - ("...such people can still be notable if they meet the general notability guideline.") Ahuacaxochitl (talk) 22:44, 8 August 2026 (UTC)