Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jeffrey Alan Payne
and then create a '''redirect''' to the election per Kinu. Unelected candidates for political office do not get Wikipedia articles just for being candidates — and as of today, he's still only a candidate in a party ''primary'', which is even ''less'' of a notability claim. At the gubernatorial level, the election campaign frequently does generate more and wider coverage than assembly races do, so he ''may'' have a valid claim to passing  next year ''if'' he wins the primary and becomes the Democratic candidate in the general — but even that wouldn't ''guarantee'' him an article in and of itself if it couldn't be substantively written and sourced — but nothing here as of right now already entitles him to have an article today
— User:Bearcat, 17:32, 18 July 2017 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:GNG (Wikipedia:Notability)