Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tim Canova
as per .  Article was started during campaign for office, so there are 2 questions here 1.) Would he have qualified for an article before he announced his candidacy.  2.) Has coverage during his candidacy broken though the  barrier: "can still be notable if they meet the |primary notability criterion of significant coverage in Wikipedia:Verifiability#Sources|independent, Wikipedia:Reliable sources|reliable sources."  Nothing in the article shows per-candidacy notability.  I checked him on Proquest Newspapers and found only 2 per-candidacy mentions, 1 where he gives a single sentence quote and 1 where he is listed as taking part in a panel.  So, no, it does not appear that he could have had an article before this candidacy.  It would be highly unusual for a candidate for a congressional seat to pass the notability bar during the campaign.  And I cannot make an argument that it has happened in this case.  Coverage of the campaign is mostly regional and routine.  He has attracted some national coverage, however, the handful of national coverage that goes beyond mentioning him in a list of contenders to win a seat in Congress, does so in the coverage like ''Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s Challenger Has a Chance'' https://newrepublic.com/article/127500/debbie-wasserman-schultzs-challenger-chance, or this, http://observer.com/2016/02/why-debbie-wasserman-schultz-wont-make-it-to-congress-next-year/, articles, that is, that are about the race, fall under  and do not carry Canova past 
— User:E, 15:04, 21 March 2016 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:POLITICIAN||WP:POLITICIAN||WP:N||WP:POLITICIAN||WP:N (Wikipedia:Notability)