Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nels Mitchell
to United States Senate election in Idaho, 2014.  The nominator is correct that we don't generally consider an ''unelected'' political candidate to be sufficiently notable to require a separate biographical article, unless the subject has another basis for notability, such as receiving sufficient coverage for other activities to pass the |general notability guideline.  See Wikipedia:Notability (people)#Politicians: "Just being an elected local official, or an unelected ''candidate'' for political office, does not guarantee notability, although such people can still be notable if they meet the |primary notability criterion of 'significant coverage in Wikipedia:Reliable sources|reliable sources that are Wikipedia:Verifiability#Sources|independent of the subject of the article'."  See also Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Common outcomes#Politicians: "Candidates who ran but never were elected for a national legislature or other national office are not viewed as having inherent notability and are often deleted or merged into lists of campaign hopefuls, such as Ontario New Democratic Party candidates, 1995 Ontario provincial election, or into articles detailing the specific race in question, such as United States Senate election in Nevada, 2010. Note that such articles are still subject to the same content policies as any other article, and may not contain any unsourced biographical information that would not be acceptable in a separate article."   A few of his bio details could be added to the description of Mitchell in the Senate election article
— User:Arxiloxos, 21:44, 31 August 2016 (UTC)
Stance: merge
Cited policy: WP:GNG||WP:N (Wikipedia:Notability)