Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/N. Leonard Smith
Neither holding local political office nor being an unsuccessful candidate for higher office constitutes a guaranteed inclusion freebie on Wikipedia, but the article is referenced nowhere close to well enough to get him over the bar. To be considered notable enough for inclusion in Wikipedia, a person at these levels of political significance would have to either (a) have preexisting notability for other reasons that would already have gotten him an article ''anyway'' (e.g. clearing our inclusion criteria in another field of endeavour), or (b) be referenceable to a depth and range and volume of coverage that expanded significantly ''beyond'' what's merely ''expected'' to exist for ''all'' county councillors and ''all'' unsuccessful congressional candidates. That's not what these references show, however: four of the five footnotes are |primary sources that do not constitute support for notability at all, and the only one that's actual media coverage is a routine obituary in a small community weekly — which is not enough coverage to get somebody over  all by itself if he has no notability claims that would pass any SNGs
— User:Bearcat, 14:39, 8 April 2019 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:PRIMARYSOURCES||WP:GNG (Wikipedia:No original research)