Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Robert Staines
The shire/county level of political office does not confer an automatic  pass in and of itself — an officeholder at that level can qualify for an article if he can be well-sourced over  as significantly ''more'' notable than the norm, but is not automatically entitled to an article just for existing. But nothing here demonstrates a strong claim to wider notability — the only other thing here, really, is that he was a non-winning candidate in state and federal elections, but non-winning candidacies also don't constitute notability in and of themselves. And the sourcing isn't building a strong case for notability per GNG, either: right across the board, it consists of  coverage of the election campaigns of the type that ''every'' candidate in ''any'' election could ''always'' show, routine obituaries, and a family genealogy. This is not what it takes to make a rural shire councillor notable just for being a rural shire councillor
— User:Bearcat, 15:56, 21 May 2017 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:NPOL||WP:GNG||WP:ROUTINE (Wikipedia:Notability)