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Jacob G. Hornberger is an American attorney and author, founder and president of the Future of Freedom Foundation, a candidate for the Libertarian Party's presidential nomination in 2000 and 2020, and a candidate for the United States Senate in Virginia in 2002. In 2020 he won more primaries and more primary votes than any other candidate before losing the nomination to Jo Jorgensen on the fourth ballot.
English Wikipedia has no article about him. Both title variants are creation-protected, so no one can write one. WikiCritic's rubric grades a specific revision of a specific page; there is no revision to grade, so no Overall, Neutrality, or Accuracy grade appears. What follows is the public record of how the page was removed, and commentary on it.
- 2019-05-13 Draft:Jacob G. Hornberger deleted as unambiguous promotion (G11).
- 2019-05-19 Draft recreated, deleted the same day as a copyright infringement (G12).
- 2020-06-13 Jacob G. Hornberger created as a redirect to Jacob Hornberger.
- 2023-05-14 Redirect deleted as broken (G8) following the second deletion discussion.
- 2023-05-17 Recreated as a redirect to 2002 United States Senate election in Virginia.
- 2026-05-24 Article tagged over the reliability and reading of its best-sourced material.
- 2026-05-31 Deleted at the third deletion discussion. Title creation-protected: “Repeatedly recreated.”
- 2026-06-04 Title recreated following a redirects-for-discussion outcome, then protected again the same day.
- 2026-06-30 Jacob G. Hornberger written as a full article. Deleted within hours (G4, recreation of deleted material) and that title salted too.
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Political scientist · third-party and minor-party politics, 18 years
Stance: not a libertarian; has written critically of the party
ACADEMIC
I have no brief for the Future of Freedom Foundation and I have said in print that the Libertarian
Party is less consequential than its coverage suggests. But the 2020 nomination contest is a
documented event with a documented result, and the candidate who led the primary vote through
three ballots is a reasonable subject for an encyclopedia entry. Whatever one thinks of the
quality of past drafts — and the 2019 ones were genuinely bad — the third discussion
decided a question about the man, not about the text in front of it.
Suppressed page: Jacob Hornberger · deleted 31 May 2026, creation-protected
Discussion: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jacob Hornberger (3rd nomination)
Discussion: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jacob Hornberger (3rd nomination)
8 Jun 2026 · ostrowski.faculty.edu/notes/third-ballot
3 endorsements
Answered by Marta Kaine, who argues the deletion was correctly decided.
Wikipedia editor, 6 years
First-hand witness: wrote one of the deleted drafts
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I wrote one of the 2019 drafts and it deserved to go. It read like a campaign flyer, and the
replacement I put up a week later lifted a paragraph off an audiobook blurb, which is a copyright
problem and not a debatable one. Both speedy deletions were correct and I would make the same call
today. What I object to is the 2026 protection, which treats seven-year-old bad drafts as evidence
about a subject rather than evidence about an editor. The remedy is narrow: lift creation
protection on one title and let a draft be reviewed on what it says.
2 Jul 2026 · rayduffield.net/posts/my-bad-draft
2 endorsements
Self-identified: reader, no editing account
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searched his name, wikipedia sent me to a senate race from 2002 that he lost. he is mentioned in it
twice. that is the whole encyclopedia's answer to a guy who was on four presidential ballots. i am
not saying he deserves a page, i am saying a redirect to a losing senate campaign is a weird thing
to call an answer
14 Jun 2026 · x.com/quietcartographer/status/1934208877415
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Wikipedia administrator · 14 years, ~62,000 edits
First-hand witness: participated in the third deletion discussion
SUBSTACK
Ostrowski's account leaves out what the discussion actually turned on. Nobody argued he had done
nothing; they argued that almost everything written about him was written by him or by
organisations he runs, and that primary-vote totals inside a party convention are not independent
coverage of a person. That is a real distinction and it is applied to figures across the political
spectrum every week. Salting two titles after four recreations is not a verdict on libertarianism.
It is what the tool is for. I would support a draft built from independent sources, and I have said
so on the record.
11 Jun 2026 · martakaine.substack.com/p/what-the-afd-was-about
2 endorsements
Answers Dr. Helen Ostrowski's report, which links back to this one.
Elections researcher · 9 years
Conflict of interest: none disclosed
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Reviewing 2002 United States Senate election in Virginia on its own terms: it is a
competent stub about a lopsided race. The problem is what it has been made to do. It is now the
destination for readers searching a name it mentions twice in passing, and it carries no
indication that it is standing in for a biography. If the redirect is to remain, one sentence
naming what else the subject is known for would cost nothing and would stop the page misleading
people who arrive at it by accident.
5 Jul 2026 · owenbrandt.net/wikipedia-redirect-target
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Ballot Access Notes · 26 Jun 2026 · newsletter
“What makes the Hornberger case legible is that the paper trail is public. Three deletion
discussions, two protected titles, and a speedy deletion inside a single afternoon are all
recorded in logs anyone can read. The dispute is not about whether it happened.”
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