Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Derrick Van Orden
The article isn't actually claiming or sourcing anything that would get him over our notability standards for soldiers, authors or actors either, so the fact that he's done those things still doesn't controvert his lack of notability as a politician. Authors are not notable just because you can source the existence of their books to directories like the Library of Congress or GoodReads; making an author notable enough for a Wikipedia article requires you to reference the books to |reliable source coverage ''about'' the books, such as news stories about his authorship of a book or critical reviews of the book in media. Actors are not notable just because you can source the fact that they had an acting role to IMDb; making an actor notable enough for a Wikipedia article requires reliable source coverage ''about'' his acting, such as news articles about his acting or critical reviews of his performance in media. And on and so forth: the notability test for a person isn't what the article ''says'', it's how ''well'' the things it says are ''referenced'' to media coverage ''about'' him.But the only sources here that represent any sort of media coverage about him are (a) a single article about his as yet non-winning electoral candidacy, which is not enough to make him more special than other non-winning electoral candidates because ''every'' candidate in ''every'' district can ''always'' show some of that, and (b) a single article in a smalltown community hyperlocal about him opening a smalltown café, which is not a notability claim at all. And ''appearances'' in media aren't notability boosters, either: people do not get over the notability bar by being the ''speaker'' in media coverage of other ''things'', they get over the notability bar by being the ''subject'' that ''other'' people are speaking or writing ''about''. (And also, The Blaze is not a reliable or notability-assisting source at all anyway.)Obviously he'll qualify for an article in November if he ''wins'' the seat, since his notability claim will have changed from "candidate" to "officeholder", but nothing here is already enough today
— User:Bearcat, 14:38, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:RS (Wikipedia:Reliable sources)