Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Charlie Brown (California politician)
Unsuccessful election candidates do not get Wikipedia articles for that fact per se, except very occasionally in the rare instance that the media coverage explodes ''far'' out of proportion to what could be |routinely ''expected'' to exist for all candidates in all elections (i.e. Christine O'Donnell.) But the sourcing here is overwhelmingly local to his own district, and the few sources that actually expand beyond the purely local are not substantively ''about'' Brown, but merely namecheck his existence in coverage of the incumbent he ran against. And there's no strong evidence that he had any preexisting notability for other reasons, either — the "life and career" section includes impressive-sounding claims, but cites no sources to demonstrate that he was getting ''media'' coverage for any of it at the time. This is simply not what it takes to make an unelected candidate for office notable enough for a standalone article
— User:Bearcat, 16:08, 21 May 2017 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:ROUTINE (Wikipedia:Notability)