Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Matt Riccardi
Unelected candidates for office are not guaranteed articles just for being candidates — and being a candidate for ''governor'' isn't an automatic notability boost either, especially if one is a minor-party candidate. Even for Democratic or Republican candidates for governor, the notability ''usually'' derives from having ''already'' held another notable office ''prior'' to running for governor — such as lieutenant governor, or attorney general, or a seat in the state legislature or the US Congress, or mayor of one of the state's biggest cities — rather than from the fact of running for governor per se. But there's no preexisting notability for other reasons being demonstrated here, nor enough |reliable source coverage that's substantively about him to grant him a special exception: of the 13 footnotes here, five are unnecessary reduplications of his own |primary source campaign website, one is a raw table of the prior election results from 2013, three are unnecessary repetitions of two of the others, and two are basic and  overviews of ''all'' the gubernatorial candidates rather than sources which single him out for dedicated attention. So there are really only two sources here that count toward establishing notability at all — and that's not enough
— User:Bearcat, 20:38, 7 November 2017 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:RS||WP:PRIMARYSOURCES||WP:ROUTINE (Wikipedia:Reliable sources)