Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bob Tuke
As always, unelected candidates for office are not handed an automatic inclusion freebie just for having their name on the ballot — they have to ''win'' the election, not just run in it, to be presumed notable as a politician. But this makes no other strong claim of preexisting notability for other reasons that would have gotten him an article independently of his candidacy. And no, the fact that some degree of campaign coverage exists does ''not'' get a candidate over  all by itself, as Teemu08 wrongly claims above, because ''every'' candidate in ''every'' election ''everywhere'' can ''always'' show some degree of campaign coverage — to make a candidate notable on pure GNG grounds without winning the election first or having standing prior notability for other reasons, the campaign coverage has to explode to a degree ''way'' out of proportion with what other candidates could also show, as in Christine O'Donnell or Alexandria Ocasio Cortez. But this isn't showing any evidence that Tuke's candidacy is anywhere near that high bar of specialness
— User:Bearcat, 15:02, 26 August 2018 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:GNG (Wikipedia:Notability)