Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lee Busby
Being an as yet non-winning candidate in a future election is not, in and of itself, a notability criterion that gets a person into Wikipedia — a person has to ''win'' the election, not just run in it, to clear . Jones and Moore both had preexisting notability for their prior careers as a lawyer and a judge ''before'' becoming candidates in the Senate election, which is why they have articles, but there's no evidence being shown here that Busby did: he would ''not'' have passed  on either the volume or the depth of pre-campaign art-sourcing shown here, because neither the number of sources nor the depth of what they actually say about him would have been enough. And a smattering of campaign-related coverage is not in and of itself enough to claim that he passes GNG for the campaign itself, either — ''every'' candidate in ''any'' election ''anywhere'' could ''always'' show a smattering of campaign-related coverage, so to deem his candidacy a special notability case per se we would require significantly ''more'' coverage than most other candidates could always also show. When it comes to politics, our role is not to provide "equal time" to all candidates in every election — we are not a free publicity venue for aspiring future notables, but an encyclopedia on which an article does not become appropriate until ''after'' the person has ''already'' cleared a notability standard. Our governing principle is |what will people still be looking for ten years from now, not |who happens to be temporarily newsy today. No prejudice against recreation after election day if by some unlikely stroke of luck he somehow wins the seat, but nothing here is enough to already deem him notable today
— User:Bearcat, 22:32, 30 November 2017 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:NPOL||WP:NARTIST||WP:10YT||WP:NOTNEWS (Wikipedia:Notability)