Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Doug Applegate (California politician)
to United States House of Representatives elections in California, 2018#District 49 or '''delete'''. Non-winning candidates for political office do not get Wikipedia articles because candidate, in and of itself — to get him into Wikipedia, you would need to show and |reliably source that either (a) he was already notable enough for an article for some other reason ''independent'' of his candidacy itself, or (b) the campaign coverage exploded ''wildly'' out of proportion to the volume that every candidate in any election could always show (e.g. Christine O'Donnell). But neither of those things is being demonstrated here at all
— User:Bearcat, 17:35, 16 April 2017 (UTC)
Stance: merge
Cited policy: WP:RS (Wikipedia:Reliable sources)