Deletion of Dave Min

Comment: per nom.  Also per  and 
Stance: merge
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:NTEMP||WP:TOOSOON)

Comment: There are many instances of significant national coverage about him around the time of his announcement in April 2017 to run. I think he received more coverage and attention than is typical for the position he's running for, but all those articles might be considered standard reporting for a newly announced candidate. However, he has also received additional national news coverage since then, which shows there is national interest in him and the race beyond what is typical. He received more than a paragraph in NYT in Nov 2017,https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/01/magazine/a-post-obama-democratic-party-in-search-of-itself.html?mtrref=www.google.com and six paragraphs leading an article on candidates of color on CNN in January 2018https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/27/politics/candidates-of-color-age-of-trump/index.html and an article about how he's campaigning in Roll Call.https://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/california-primaries-negative-campaigning He made huge headlines during the Democratic Party Convention when he just barely received the nomination.https://theintercept.com/2018/02/27/contested-endorsement-california-democratic-party-convention/http://www.latimes.com/politics/essential/la-pol-ca-essential-politics-updates-dave-min-gets-democratic-endorsement-for-1519593051-htmlstory.html I think he easily passes  for significant coverage in secondary, independent sources, even if you ignore the "standard" coverage about his candidacy
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:GNG)

Comment: Maybe I should abstain...we have the same employer and there are four Dave Min campaign signs on the block where I live. Feel free to disregard if you think that makes for too much of a COI.) For now, the coverage appears to be only about his campaign (usually considered non-passing of ), and we don't have evidence of passing . If he makes it through the primary and then wins the general, he will become notable, or maybe we can look back at all this later and see lasting interest in his campaign that makes it notable even if he doesn't win. But there's no hurry and for now I think it's better not to open the floodgates of "this person got their campaign covered in the newspaper so they're notable
Stance: merge
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:POLITICIAN||WP:PROF)

Comment: I have little doubt that the article was created for promotional purposes, and it's seen more than its fair share of COI editing. However the article has been largely cleaned up, and there's no reason to |blow it up now based on things that happened in the past. Future disruption can be dealt with. Regarding notability, there are more than enough reliable sources to easily satisfy our |general notability guideline. We have the http://www.latimes.com/politics/essential/la-pol-ca-essential-politics-updates-second-uc-irvine-professor-to-challenge-1491417754-htmlstory.html LA Times, https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/policy-nerd-dave-min-wants-give-academia-seat-congress-n760156 NBC News, http://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/mimi-walters-gets-second-challenger Roll Call, https://www.ocweekly.com/here-comes-min-8016480/ OC Weekly, the https://www.ocregister.com/2017/04/05/dave-min-a-uc-irvine-law-professor-will-challenge-rep-mimi-walters/ OC Register, the http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/world/2017/04/684_227539.html Korean Times, all mostly about Min. And those are just the sources that are currently cited after a deep cull of the promotional content. Heck, the guy also received a paragraph and a photo in https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/01/magazine/a-post-obama-democratic-party-in-search-of-itself.html?mtrref=www.google.com&gwh=6BC40F2BF8451B4F4E748FFFBAB55D34&gwt=pay The NY Times.  is explicit that candidates for office can be notable "if they meet the |primary notability criterion of 'significant coverage in Wikipedia:Reliable sources|reliable sources that are Wikipedia:Verifiability#Sources|independent of the subject of the article.'"  is also explicit that  is merely an additional avenue to establish notability. {{nw
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Blow it up and start over (WP:TNT||WP:GNG||WP:POLITICIAN||WP:N||WP:BASIC)

Comment: to California's 45th congressional district#2018 Midterm Election. Fails . Such redirects should be and very often have been standard practice for biographies of unelected political candidates. This biography was created a few weeks after he declared his candidacy in an obvious effort to promote that candidacy. All of the independent sources were published after he became a candidate  and are mostly routine local articles much like every single serious Congressional candidate receives. Such biographies are targets for disruptive political operatives, both paid and volunteer. This article has been edited by a paid staffer of a rival campaign. There are well over 1000 Congressional candidates in the upcoming U.S. elections and tens of thousands more in state level elections. If we open that floodgate, we will  be fighting ten thousand battles simultaneously. These candidates should be covered, briefly, in balanced articles about individual political races that treat all candidates neutrally. If Min wins his race for Congress, the biography should be recreated then
Stance: merge
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:POLITICIAN)

Comment: per Cullen328. The article does not meet  and does not establish notability
Stance: merge
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:POLITICIAN)

Comment: per Cullen. The existence of some campaign-related coverage is not in and of itself a free pass over  for an as yet unelected candidate who doesn't already have preexisting notability for other reasons — ''every'' candidate in ''every'' election ''everywhere'' can ''always'' show some evidence of campaign-related coverage, so that coverage does not establish notability in and of itself unless it ''explodes'' to a degree that marks him out as a ''special'' case over and above most other candidates. We do not exist as a promotional venue for publishing aspiring officeholders' campaign brochures — a person has to ''hold'' a notable political office, not just run for one, to be considered notable as a politician. Notability here is not measured by |temporary newsiness — it is measured by the |will people still be looking for an article about this person ten years from now test, which unelected candidates for office normally do not pass. No prejudice against recreation in November if he wins the seat, since his notability equation will thus have changed, but nothing here is already enough to get him a Wikipedia article today
Stance: merge
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:GNG||WP:NOTNEWS||WP:10YT)