Deletion of Ilya Sheyman

Comment:  is '''never''' moot when discussing a candidate who has received press attention only because of his candidacy. This candidate should be discussed in an article about the specific race that includes neutral coverage of all the candidates.  That's the only way to ensure the |neutral point of view, which is one of our most important policies.  It can be summarized as "Articles mustn't take sides, but should explain the sides, fairly and without bias."  All of the coverage mentioned above is utterly routine for a congressional candidate with a competent staff.  They send out press releases and the local papers print some of them.  Much is being made of his "national" coverage, yet the Seattle Times coverage is a reprint from the Chicago Tribune that mentions him only in passing.  Coverage in The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill is half a sentence, and that's a specialist publication for political junkies like me, not a general circulation publication.  The NBC coverage is by the local Chicago affiliate and not national.  The Associated Press coverage was printed in the Daily Herald (Arlington Heights)|Daily Herald, a suburban Chicago area paper. There is no significant coverage in the national press.  It is all routine and in passing.  There is no reason whatsoever to depart from  in this case
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Neutral point of view (WP:NPOV||WP:POLITICIAN)

Comment: to an NPOV article about the 2012 Illinois 10th Congressional District election.  We don't need a slew of promotional  articles about unelected candidates for office
Stance: merge
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Conflict of interest (WP:COI)

Comment: Speaking personally, and not as a Wikipedia editor, if I lived in Illinois' 10th Congressional District, I might consider supporting Ilya Sheyman for Congress.  Also speaking personally, the chance that I will support Buddy Roemer for President is zero.  However, speaking as a Wikipedia editor, Buddy Roemer was elected to the House of Representatives and was later elected Governor of Louisiana.  Buddy Roemer meets  and Ilya Sheyman, at this point, doesn't.  Buddy Roemer is notable by Wikipedia standards and Ilya Sheyman isn't.  Here on Wikipedia, we don't have biographies of people running for office who have never been elected to a high office, just because their campaign staffs have sent out a slew of press releases that got reprinted.  Instead, we cover such candidacies in neutral articles about the specific race.  Those articles cover all the candidates in an even-handed way.  Feel free to create an article about the race, that describes all the candidates for that office in a neutral fashion.  If you can't bring yourself to do that, then you have a |conflict of interest and shouldn't be editing anything pertaining to this race.  I wish you well
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:POLITICIAN||WP:COI)