Deletion of Patrick Little (engineer)

Comment: Subject fails . There was one incident at a convention and all the ''reportage'' comes from that. That's not enough for 
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons (WP:BLP1E||WP:GNG)

Comment: he's not an engineer, but rather a politician, and he fails . There's also been some recent media coverage that refers to him only as an unelected politician. Polling well does not get you past , nor does causing a political ruckus in your party before an election. For an unelected candidate to pass , lasting significant coverage must be shown, and that's not shown here, nor is it close
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:NPOL||WP:GNG||WP:GNG)

Comment: The article's subject is currently running for a top-level political position in the world's 5th largest economy.{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/brexit-pound-value-uk-economy-california-fifth-place-rankings-a7347696.html|title=Brexit: California overtakes UK to become 'world's fifth largest economy', US politician claims|website=independent.co.uk|accessdate=24 March 2018}} The article cites multiple, reliably sourced references which focus on the subject exclusively. That alone gets the subject above the bar of 's primary criterion. With elections six months from now, it's certain additional entries of note can be added to the article. If deleted we could end up in an unnecessary delete-recreate loop. For all the citing of  as the applicable standard this bit seems to have been glossed over: {{xt|... an unelected candidate for political office, does not guarantee notability, ''although such people can still be notable if they meet the primary notability criterion
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:GNG||WP:NPOL)

Comment: There is continuing coverage beyond the convention incident, and the polling data lends it significance. I think this has crossed the  line
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:GNG)

Comment: Non-winning candidates do not get Wikipedia articles just for being candidates, and the percentage that he scored in one public opinion poll during the campaign is ''not'' an automatic "this person's candidacy is more notable than most other people's candidacies" freebie either. So that does ''not'' count as a second "event" for the purposes of exempting him from the  issue. He'll pass  if he ''wins'' the election in November, certainly — but nothing here is a reason why he would already qualify to have a Wikipedia article today
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons (WP:BLP1E||WP:NPOL)

Comment: Enough coverage from |reliable sources for multiple events (his running, his 18% number in a poll, and his being kicked out of the California State Republican convention): http://www.newsweek.com/republican-senate-candidate-praise-hitler-907749 - http://www.sanluisobispo.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/article210943069.html - https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/05/holocaust-denier-running-congress-180505125632779.html - https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/Neo-Nazi-Senate-candidate-Patrick-Little-kicked-12890730.php - http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/opinion/the-conversation/sd-patrick-kicked-out-gop-convention-san-diego-20180507-htmlstory.html  Also, move to “Patrick Little (political candidate
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Reliable sources (WP:RS)

Comment: to United States Senate election in California, 2018 per . "Candidates who ran but never were elected for a national legislature or other national office are not viewed as having inherent notability and are often deleted or merged into lists of campaign hopefuls, such as Ontario New Democratic Party candidates, 1995 Ontario provincial election, or into articles detailing the specific race in question, such as United States Senate election in Nevada, 2010
Stance: merge
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Deletion policy (WP:POLOUTCOMES)