Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Erin Bilbray
or '''redirect''' to the election per nominator. Unelected candidates for office do not qualify for articles on Wikipedia just for being candidates — if you cannot make a credible case that she was ''already'' notable enough for an article ''before'' she became a candidate, then she does not ''become'' notable enough for an article until she ''wins'' the election. No matter how significant her prior work may seem, it doesn't get her over the bar if it can only be sourced to background information ''in'' the coverage of the election campaign — it would need to be sourced to references which demonstrate that she was garnering coverage for that work ''at the time it was happening'', or else it still fails our notability tests. Simple ''assertions'' that the race is likely to be widely watched do not make her more notable than other unelected candidates, either — and neither, for that matter, do advance predictions about how ''likely'' her victory is or isn't. No prejudice against recreation in November if she wins, but coverage that exists ''only'' in the context of an election campaign just makes her a  as things stand right now
— User:Bearcat, 00:13, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:BLP1E (Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons)