Deletion of Fred Mackintosh

Comment: WP:POLITICIAN says "''Just being an elected local official, or an unelected candidate for political office, does not '''guarantee''' notability, although such people '''can''' still be notable '''if''' they meet the primary notability criterion of "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject of the article."''". (Emphasis added) This person is now standing for Parliament for the third time, as I understand it. I wouldn't be surprised if there is enough coverage out there to qualify on that basis alone. However, no opinion until I check. Disclosure: I asked the admin who speedy deleted this under #A7 to undelete
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Cited policy: Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion (WP:CSD)

Comment: Hmm, in my opinion the subject doesn't quite meet .  Perhaps if he gets elected, but  applies for now, I feel
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Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:POLITICIAN||WP:CRYSTAL)

Comment: per , notability is not temporary: if he is considered notable now, he will still be notable if he fails to be elected. In any case, I don't think that creating articles for all the candidates and deleting unsuccessful ones after the election, presumably by AfD, is a sensible plan
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Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:NTEMP)

Comment: or '''redirect''' to Edinburgh South. Candidates are not notable regardless of the seat per . If he is elected we can create the article then, for now he fails notability criteria
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Cited policy: Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (WP:CRYSTAL)