Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Howard Watts III
As always, as yet unelected candidates in future elections do not get Wikipedia articles just for being candidates per se — if you cannot demonstrate and properly source that he was ''already'' notable enough for an article for some other reason ''before'' becoming a candidate, then he has to ''win'' the election, not just run in it, to become notable as a politician. Nothing here establishes preexisting notability, however — winning a youth activism award is nice for him, but not grounds for a Wikipedia article in and of itself — and since ''every'' candidate in ''any'' election ''always'' generates coverage in the local media where that election is taking place, just showing a couple of pieces of local campaign coverage does ''not'' hand a candidate a  pass in and of itself. No prejudice against recreation on or after election day if he wins, but nothing here already gets him an article today
— User:Bearcat, 21:49, 15 March 2018 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:GNG (Wikipedia:Notability)