Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/M. B. Faisal
People do not get articles just for being candidates in elections they did not win, and losing by a narrower margin than somebody else lost by is not in and of itself evidence that this losing candidate is more special than that losing candidate. The article is not actually stating or |reliably sourcing any significant evidence that he could be considered a "major local political figure" under NPOL #2 despite failing to pass NPOL #1: that criterion is meant primarily to cover ''mayors'', not unsuccessful candidates, and even if you wanted to claim notability for serving on a panchayat council, that's still not a matter of just ''saying'' he's a panchayat councillor — it would be a matter of writing and |reliably sourcing genuinely ''substantive'' content about his ''impact'' as a panchayat councillor. So outside the candidacy itself, there's nothing else here that establishes that he has preexisting notability for other reasons, and nothing that would satisfy the |ten year test for enduring significance
— User:Bearcat, 18:17, 11 May 2020 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:RS||WP:RS||WP:10YT (Wikipedia:Reliable sources)