Deletion of Constance Gadell-Newton

Comment: to Ohio gubernatorial election, 2018#Candidates 3 - Per  and
Stance: merge
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Deletion policy (WP:POLOUTCOMES)

Comment: As always, not yet elected candidates in future elections do not get Wikipedia articles just for being candidates — if you cannot demonstrate and |reliably source that she ''already'' passed some other Wikipedia inclusion criterion for some other reason ''independent'' of her candidacy itself, then she has to ''win'' the election, not just run in it, to become notable as a politician. But this makes no credible or properly sourced indication of preexisting notability for other reasons — and it's written like a campaign brochure, not an encyclopedia article, but even a person who ''does'' have a clean NPOL pass still doesn't get to have ''that'' kind of article, and still doesn't get to have her campaign staff put the article here ''themselves'' in defiance of our |conflict of interest rules
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Reliable sources (WP:RS||WP:COI)

Comment: to Ohio gubernatorial election, 2018 as the usual outcome for a candidate for a statewide office, per . The election is notable, even if the candidates may not be
Stance: merge
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Deletion policy (WP:POLOUTCOMES)

Comment: per {{u|timtempleton}}. She fails  and the coverage in reliable sources is local and routine for candidates
Stance: merge
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:POLITICIAN)

Comment: The article was very wordy and promotional. I think it was copy-pasted from somewhere like a resume. I removed all the unsourced info and non-independent citations. I think there is enough significant discussion about her that she just barely passes . She has been a candidate for the Ohio House of Representatives District 18 and received about 7% of the vote in 2016, which she received some press for. Now she is the chosen candidate for a major party for the Governor of Ohio. She has already received significant coverage about that, and it's likely she will continue to get more coverage as it gets closer to the election.  states "Just being an elected local official, or an unelected candidate for political office, does not guarantee notability, although such people can still be notable if they meet the primary notability criterion of 'significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject of the article'." I think that is the case here
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:GNG||WP:POLITICIAN)

Comment: to Ohio gubernatorial election, 2018#Declared - Per , running for an office isn't enough.  It's also . The other coverage is about her being a a witness to a shooting - which isn't enough to show notability. I added her to the Ohio article already
Stance: merge
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Deletion policy (WP:POLOUTCOMES||WP:TOOSOON)

Comment: WP:NPOL applies, but  appears to also apply. Wikipedia is not LinkedIn
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (WP:PROMO)

Comment: A  article whose initial creation edit summary describes it as ''"approved copy from Connie and Kirk"'' but where  has not been followed. The article content reads like an election release, detailing the candidate's career and platform, but with no indication that either meets the biographical notability criteria. One of the main sources in the article says that ''"she will strive to obtain 3 percent or more in the 2018 election"'' so it seems unlikely that candidature will be followed by office. But regardless of that, this fails  at present
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Single-purpose account (:WP:SPA||:WP:DISCLOSE||:WP:NPOL)

Comment: I am concerned about the obvious  but that's a different issue than whether she's notable, which she is
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Conflict of interest (WP:COI)