Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/James Thompson (Kansas politician)
WP:NPOL is not an absolute ban on articles about not-elected politicians. It's a guideline that advises us that candidates for office are not ''guaranteed'' to be notable, but that "such people can still be notable if they meet the primary notability criterion of 'significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject of the article'". There is significant coverage of Thompson in reliable sources https://thinkprogress.org/thompson-kansas-election-b57a97493db6/http://prospect.org/article/democrat-tries-pull-kansas-miraclehttp://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article144222089.htmlhttp://fortune.com/2017/02/12/jim-thompson-us-house-nominee/http://kmuw.org/post/meet-4th-congressional-candidates-james-thompsonhttps://www.thenation.com/article/a-berniecrat-takes-on-trump-and-the-koch-brothers-in-kansas/https://trofire.com/2017/04/11/kansas-james-thompson-showing-democratic-party-win-without-help/http://cjonline.com/news/state-government/2017-02-11/kansas-democrats-elect-civil-rights-lawyer-james-thompson-nominee, ergo he passes the . &ndash;&#8239
— User:Joe, 07:58, 26 September 2017 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:GNG (Wikipedia:Notability)