Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bill Dew
Unsuccessful election candidates don't get Wikipedia articles just for being candidates per se — he has to ''win'' the election, not just run in it, to be deemed notable per . The only other way to qualify him for an article is to demonstrate and |reliably source that he had preexisting notability for some other reason ''besides'' the candidacy itself, but this article doesn't even ''try'' to do that, and instead is staking his notability and his sourcing entirely onto the candidacy alone. I can't find any appreciable evidence of strong sourcing on a Google News search, either — so no prejudice against recreation in the future if somebody can source the article well enough to demonstrate that he actually has some other notability claim that this article is completely missing for some reason, but nothing in this version is notable enough to make him keepable as it stands
— User:Bearcat, 20:42, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:NPOL||WP:RS (Wikipedia:Notability)