Deletion of California's 39th congressional district election, 2018

Comment: This has received an unusual amount of coverage for a House race. It passes 
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:GNG)

Comment: as a case of  and borderline . It being in the news even furthers this as a case of , and ignoring the slippery slope/ad populum which has been spun both ways, many of the sources are trivial mentions which just mention this particular district but do not go to any depth about it. The Washington Post link above from E.M. Gregory only says "In California’s 39th Congressional District, longtime Republican lawmaker Edward R. Royce recently announced his retirement; 17 candidates are running for his seat." and appends some statistics to this. The Denver Post article similarly only makes a trivial mention of this particular district, saying that "according to Kondik, the three likeliest places where that could happen are districts currently held by Republicans: the 39th, based in Fullerton, where Ed Royce is retiring; the 48th, in Orange County, now held by Dana Rohrabacher; and the 49th district in San Diego, where Darrell Issa is also retiring."  also applies since once summarized, the only substantial thing these sources are saying is "these districts, held by Republicans, might be won by the Democrats this autumn
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Recentism (WP:RECENTISM||WP:CRYSTAL||WP:NOTNEWS)

Comment: It's not helpful to have a standalone article about every individual district in a 435-seat national legislative election — and even given the argument that this one is somehow a special case of wider media interest than most others because it's more competitive, the problem is that other editors won't see it that way: for thousands of Wikipedia editors both established and new, the existence of this will turn into "my district automatically gets to have one of these too", which is both undesirable and not needed and will create a shitstorm of cleanup wars. This is pure  — the test for a standalone article is not |does this happen to be temporarily newsy right now, but |will people still be looking for this article ten years from now, and the answer to that question is profoundly unlikely to be "yes" here
Stance: merge
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Recentism (WP:RECENTISM||WP:NOTNEWS||WP:10YT)