Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ammar Campa-Najjar
The fact that ''one'' extralocal media outlet grants ''one'' piece of coverage to a local candidate is not, in and of itself, an instant pass of the "more notable than most other candidates test" — over the course of the election campaign, at ''least'' half of ''all'' candidates nationwide will be able to show at least one such piece, because "digging into individual races to see if they can tell us anything important about the national mood" is a thing national media do too. If the nationalized coverage were exploding to Christine O'Donnell or Jon Ossoff proportions, then there'd be a case that he was more notable than most other candidates — but a candidate does not instantly pass the notability bar for candidates the moment you can show ''one'' source that exceeds local and . And of the 15 sources here, seven of them (effectively 50 per cent, since 0.5 of a source is impossible) are |primary sources that do not assist notability at all, such as his own campaign website, his own Twitter feed, his own LinkedIn and pieces of his own writing about other things. Of the eight that are real media coverage, several of them just namecheck his existence within coverage of other things, so they don't help get him over GNG, as he isn't their ''subject'', and another is the routine "candidate positions on the issues" questionnaire that media outlets ''have'' to send to ''every'' candidate, so it's not evidence of notability because its existence or lack thereof for any candidate is a question of the ''candidate's'' choice to ''respond'' or not, not of the media outlet picking and choosing who gets one. So toting up the references that actually count for something, there simply ''aren't'' enough left to deem him a special case over and above other candidates, and the fact that ''one'' of them is Al Jazeera isn't a magic bullet all by itself.The notability test for an election candidate is not "does some |temporarily newsy media coverage exist today?" — because, again, for election candidates it never ever doesn't — but "does the media coverage that exists today already demonstrate a compelling reason to believe that  ''even'' if he ''loses'' the race this fall, people will ''still'' be looking for information about him |ten years from now ''anyway
— User:Bearcat, 18:41, 28 May 2018 (UTC)
Stance: merge
Cited policy: WP:ROUTINE||WP:PRIMARYSOURCES||WP:NOTNEWS||WP:10YT (Wikipedia:Notability)