Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/David Risstrom (2nd nomination)
Firstly, he ''was'' a city councillor in a "global city" for the purposes of : the argument that that guideline doesn't apply to Australian cities is nonsense. Secondly, I almost always vote delete on unelected political candidates and have for years, but this is not a routine case - his particular Senate defeat was in uniquely controversial circumstances, is still frequently referenced fifteen years later, and has the hundreds of sources you'd expect from that. As I said in the initial discussion, this was always going to come down to whether people judged notability on the ''actual'' sources available, or on the sources people imagined existed having heard the mere fact of him having been an unsuccessful political candidate. We don't judge notability at AfD by the sources in the article, we judge it by the sources that exist, and this just needs somebody to do a thorough rewrite from the 500+ available articles about him. He was always notable, as reflected in the last AfD: he's only being nominated this time because of the assumption of non-notability for political candidates regardless of  and 
— User:The, 06:46, 4 March 2019 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:POLOUTCOMES||WP:GNG||WP:POLOUTCOMES (Wikipedia:Deletion policy)