Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Steven Charles Watkins (politician)
without prejudice against recreation next month if he wins. As always, candidates are not automatically presumed notable just for being candidates per se, but 12 footnotes (of which one is VoteSmart, a |primary source on which ''every'' candidate ''always'' gets a profile, and one is the raw results of a single public opinion poll, is not enough sourcing to mark him out as more notable than most other candidates. For candidates who haven't already won, the notability tests they have to pass are either "already has preexisting notability for other reasons that would have gotten them an article anyway" (i.e. the reason why Donald Trump was already notable long before he ever even tried to run for anything, let alone win), or "is receiving so much more coverage than most other candidates that they have a credible claim to being ''special''" (c.f. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez). If he wins the seat, then he'll obviously clear  #1 on that basis and an article will be recreatable — but none of this is already notable enough to already earn him an article today, or to make him ''permanently'' notable even if he ''loses'' the seat next month
— User:Bearcat, 22:07, 8 October 2018 (UTC)
Stance: merge
Cited policy: WP:PRIMARYSOURCES||WP:NPOL (Wikipedia:No original research)