Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gareth Rhodes
Unelected candidates for office 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 ''besides'' being a candidate, then he has to ''win'' the election and thereby ''hold'' the seat, not just run as a candidate, to become notable as a politician. But this demonstrates no strong claim of preexisting notability, and the existence of some campaign-related coverage is not an automatic  pass for a candidate either, because ''every'' candidate can ''always'' show some evidence of campaign-related coverage. His district is in the immediate suburbs and exurbs of New York City itself, further, so the fact that one of the sources here is in ''The New York Times'' does not make his candidacy special — it just represents the ''expected'' local coverage in his ''local'' media, not evidence that his candidacy is storming the national notability ramparts — and at any rate, that source is not ''about'' him per se, but simply mentions his name in the process of being fundamentally an ''overview'' about ''all'' of the challengers vying in the Democratic primary, so it doesn't single Rhodes out as a special case over and above Antonio Delgado or Brian Flynn or Patrick Ryan or Erin Collier or David Clegg or Jeff Beals. And at any rate, NPOL #2's provision for "major local political figures" is about mayors and city councillors and county supervisors, not unelected candidates for anything. No prejudice against recreation in November if he wins the seat, but nothing here is already enough as of today
— User:Bearcat, 15:49, 17 April 2018 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:RS||WP:GNG (Wikipedia:Reliable sources)