Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Barry Hermanson
Candidates for political office do not get an automatic presumption of notability just for being candidates, not even the perennial kind. But there's no real  claim here either — about half the references in the article are to |primary sources that cannot assist GNG at all, and all but one of the remaining sources are local |blogs and local alt-weeklies. Only one source here, ''East Bay Times'', actually counts for anything at all toward meeting GNG — but ''one'' source can't carry GNG all by itself. Local coverage of local elections is |routinely ''expected'' to exist, so an unelected candidate doesn't get to claim GNG on local election coverage alone — a candidate for office doesn't have a GNG argument until the coverage of them ''nationalizes
— User:Bearcat, 16:50, 19 October 2016 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:GNG||WP:PRIMARYSOURCES||WP:BLOGS||WP:ROUTINE (Wikipedia:Notability)