Deletion of Bill Lee (Tennessee politician)

Comment: HOWEVER, the revision history should not be deleted. It is almost certain that he will become the next Governor of Tennessee, so when he wins the election in November, the article will be restored. He has received some coverage in the media to potentially pass  though the coverage was mostly just election results and upsets
Stance: merge
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:GNG)

Comment: and/or '''redirect'''. Winning a primary is not in and of itself grounds for a Wikipedia article, because that still only makes him a ''candidate'' and not yet an ''officeholder'' — but our notability rules for politicians require a person to ''hold'' office, not just run for it, to be considered a notable politician. The campaign coverage that a person receives, further, does not assist in getting them over , because ''every'' candidate ''always'' gets some campaign coverage — so if the existence of some campaign coverage were all it took to distinguish a notable candidate from a non-notable candidate, then ''every'' candidate would ''always'' pass the test. Per , Wikipedia does not deal in the realm of election predictions, either — if he hasn't already held a political office that passes , then his chances of winning one in the future are not a notability claim in and of themselves. "Favoured to win" candidates do sometimes still lose, and underdogs do sometimes win, so we do ''not'' create articles about candidates just because they happen to be leading the public opinion polling at some random point during the campaign. And no, being CEO of "one of the largest companies in the region" is not an automatic notability freebie either — even for company CEOs, the notability test is still the depth and breadth and volume of |reliable sourcing that can be shown to get them over  ''for'' being CEOs, and the word "CEO" is not in and of itself a magic bullet that exempts them from having to have the correct depth and breath and volume of reliable sourcing. No prejudice against recreation in November if he wins the seat, but neither the content nor the sourcing here are enough to already get him an article today
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:GNG||WP:CRYSTAL||WP:NPOL||WP:RS||WP:GNG)

Comment: per nom and per . A redirect is the usual and appropriate outcome for a candidate for a federal or statewide office when the subject does not meet  or another SNG. I do think, contra Nuke, that the election page about the election can contain short, verifiable biographies about the candidates. Also, all the coverage of the subject is in the context of the election (see 
Stance: merge
Cited policy: Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (WP:CRYSTAL||WP:NPOL||WP:BIO1E)

Comment: per nom.  and  cover these types of situations. If he indeed wins his race, we can create a page for him then. But there's |no hurry, and no reason to change our usual standards in this area for one individual
Stance: merge
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:NPOL||WP:POLOUTCOMES||WP:NOHURRY)