Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/David Hildebrand
No'' candidate in any election ''ever'' fails to be the subject of some coverage in the context of the election campaign itself — so that falls under |run of the mill, and is not coverage that can be used to make a candidate pass GNG just because some media coverage exists. If the mere existence of campaign-specific coverage were enough in and of itself to get over GNG, then ''every'' candidate in ''any'' election would ''always'' get over GNG. But our job is to maintain articles about ''holders'' of office, not everybody who ever just ''ran'' for one — we have an ''established consensus'' that Wikipedia is  a repository of campaign brochures for unelected candidates. To make a candidate notable enough for a Wikipedia article, you must show one of three things: (1) he's the ''winner'' of the Senate election in ''November'', (2) he was ''already'' notable enough for an article for some other reason ''before'' he became a candidate, or (3) his candidacy is getting ''so'' much more coverage than most other candidacies are also getting that you could credibly claim his candidacy had already made him ''nationally famous'' (the Christine O'Donnell exception.) Yes, if he actually manages to defeat Dianne Feinstein in the primary, then in all likelihood the coverage of him ''will'' expand enough to pass that last condition — but simply being able to show four pieces of campaign-related coverage is ''not'' evidence that a candidate has already cleared our notability standards, because every candidate in any election could ''always'' show four pieces of campaign-related coverage, and he's also not a special case just because he ''might'' defeat Dianne Feinstein in a primary that hasn't happened yet, because  also applies. If you could show something like Christine O'Donnell's ''168'' footnoted references, then his candidacy could be considered a special case — but just four doesn't cut it
— User:Bearcat, 19:03, 15 February 2018 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:MILL||WP:NOT||WP:CRYSTAL (Wikipedia:Run-of-the-mill)