Deletion of Kevin Stitt (2nd nomination)

Comment: to Oklahoma gubernatorial election, 2018. He doesn't meet  or  as of yet. Most of the coverage is about the campaign, not the candidate. This should not have been made an article until he does, and that won't be until he wins, |unless he loses. &ndash;&nbsp
Stance: merge
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:GNG||WP:NPOL||WP:CRYSTAL)

Comment: This appears to have been written by somebody either affiliated with his campaign or at least strongly supportive of it. It also fails . Candidates with stronger cases are routinely deleted
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:NPOL)

Comment: per , there is plenty of coverage of Stitt in reliable sources. He will ''likely'' (to use the language of pollsters) be the next governor of Oklahoma anyway, so this exercise seems pointless from a statistical standpoint
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:GNG)

Comment: without prejudice against recreation in November if he wins. As always, the bar that a candidate has to clear to get a Wikipedia article just for being a candidate is ''not'' just "campaign coverage exists" — campaign coverage ''always'' exists for ''every'' candidate in ''every'' election, so if the existence of campaign coverage were enough in and of itself to exempt a candidate from having to pass NPOL by winning the election first, then ''every'' candidate would ''always'' get that exemption and there would be no standard left to distinguish notable from non-notable politicians at all anymore. Rather, to earn an article ''without'' having to win the election first, what a candidate has to show is a reason why their candidacy is a ''special case'', because they're receiving exponentially ''more'' coverage than most other candidates are also getting. What needs to be shown is credible evidence why ''even'' if he ''loses'' the election he'll ''still'' pass the |ten-year test for enduring significance ''anyway'' — absent credible evidence of specialness, however, the simply normal and expected volume and range of campaign coverage does ''not'' reify into a GNG pass until ''after'' he's been declared the ''winner
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Recentism (WP:10YT)