Deletion of Terence M. O'Rourke

Comment: I’m not sure where to include this, but in response to one of the comments for deletion - specifically, “Unelected candidate for office with no notability under  and no other claim for inclusion”, I’d like to add that O’Rourke is, in fact, an elected official. He has been an elected official in my town for four years as a member of the Alton Budget Committee. Now, in the wake of the 2016 election, that may not seem like a big “election” to some of you, but to a town of only a couple thousand people, who already feel like they get left out of everything, that means something. He literally means the difference, for example, between whether the school budget passes or not. Not only is it an elected position, it is done without any pay or compensation whatsoever. Without people like O’Rourke who are willing to filll these positions in our small towns, our day to day functions would, quite literally, break down. So, if it means adding one more measly little Wikipedia page to the already millions you have, then would it hurt to honor a local official who is doing, has done, and will do more for the average person day to day than a dumb, two-bit YouTube celebrity (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_YouTubers
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:NPOL)

Comment: most of the sources are simple routine coverage "prosecuted by O'Rourke" etc or about his campaign. Fails  and 
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:NPOL||WP:ANYBIO)

Comment: This looks like  a PR exercise for someone running for office. Agree that this does not pass   or . Simply running for office is not sufficient for notability. The military service is completely unsourced and even if sourced would be insufficient for notability. His legal career may be his best chance of notability, but the sources seem to be either not independent or just passing mentions. Some do no even mention him at all, for example https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/terrorism/joint-terrorism-task-forces. His two years as an assistant US attorney (and his other activities) don't appear to have generated any significant coverage that I can find. I don't see this passing  or . If he is elected then sure, but until then, or unless someone can did up solid sources, no
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:NPOL||WP:NSOLDIER||WP:ANYBIO||WP:BASIC)

Comment: sorry the media coverage is only about his campaign. Candidates are not generally notable as per . If he is elected different story
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Deletion policy (:WP:OUTCOMES)

Comment: As yet unelected candidates for Congress do not get Wikipedia articles just for being candidates — a person has to ''win'' the election and thereby ''hold'' the office, not just stand as a candidate, to qualify for an article per . But this makes no valid claim of preexisting notability for other reasons — a municipal budget committee is not a notable office, and the law stuff is referenced to glancing namechecks of his existence in articles that are not ''about'' him. And neither is the congressional candidacy referenced to anything like the depth of |reliable source coverage it would take to deem him a special case — it's referenced to the minimal degree of media coverage that ''every'' candidate in ''any'' election ''always'' gets from the local media because covering local politics is the local media's ''job''. To make a candidate notable because his candidacy is getting coverage, that coverage would have to be exploding ''far'' beyond the |run of the mill volume of purely local coverage that any candidate could simply ''expect'' to receive. As always, no prejudice against recreation in November 2018 if he wins the seat, but nothing here is a reason why he would already qualify for an article today
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:NPOL||WP:RS||WP:MILL)

Comment: Unelected candidate for office with no notability under  and no other claim for inclusion
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:NPOL)