Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/James Thompson (Kansas politician)
to the election article. Candidates do not get Wikipedia articles just for being candidates per se — outside of very rare special cases like the international media firestorm that ate Christine O'Donnell, a person has to ''win'' the election, not just run in it, before "was an election candidate" constitutes a valid notability claim in and of itself. But isn't referenced to anything like enough coverage about him to make his candidacy ''more'' notable than most other non-winning candidacies — it's referenced to the  type and volume of election coverage that's simply ''expected'' to ''always'' exist in ''any'' election. To make a candidate notable just for the fact of being a candidate, the candidacy coverage has to explode ''far'' outside of the norm, the way O'Donnell's did — raw tables of election results and glancing namechecks of his existence in routine coverage of the race itself, which is what nearly all of the sources here are, are not enough
— User:Bearcat, 17:54, 2 October 2017 (UTC)
Stance: merge
Cited policy: WP:ROUTINE (Wikipedia:Notability)