Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Terence M. O'Rourke
As yet unelected candidates for Congress do not get Wikipedia articles just for being candidates — a person has to ''win'' the election and thereby ''hold'' the office, not just stand as a candidate, to qualify for an article per . But this makes no valid claim of preexisting notability for other reasons — a municipal budget committee is not a notable office, and the law stuff is referenced to glancing namechecks of his existence in articles that are not ''about'' him. And neither is the congressional candidacy referenced to anything like the depth of |reliable source coverage it would take to deem him a special case — it's referenced to the minimal degree of media coverage that ''every'' candidate in ''any'' election ''always'' gets from the local media because covering local politics is the local media's ''job''. To make a candidate notable because his candidacy is getting coverage, that coverage would have to be exploding ''far'' beyond the |run of the mill volume of purely local coverage that any candidate could simply ''expect'' to receive. As always, no prejudice against recreation in November 2018 if he wins the seat, but nothing here is a reason why he would already qualify for an article today
— User:Bearcat, 18:49, 11 November 2017 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:NPOL||WP:RS||WP:MILL (Wikipedia:Notability)