Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Seamus Burke
People do not get Wikipedia articles just for standing as candidates in elections they did not win — the notability test for politicians is ''holding'' a notable office, not just running for one, and county council isn't an inherently notable office under  in the first place, so he still wouldn't necessarily be notable enough for inclusion even if he ''had'' won the election — but this neither makes any claim that he would have had preexisting notability for other reasons independent of the candidacy, nor sources any credible reason to treat his candidacy as a special case of greater notability than everybody else's candidacies. But this title had stood for 15 years as a stable redirect to the actual Irish TD Séamus Burke until it was converted into this new article about a different person earlier today — so the content about the candidate should certainly be deleted, but the original redirect should be retained
— User:Bearcat, 14:54, 1 May 2021 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:NPOL (Wikipedia:Notability)