Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Robert Gray (Mississippi politician)
It's true that sometimes, if the election campaign that a person is running in is currently underway, people will confuse current |newsiness with enduring permanent notability. But the fact is that simply being a non-winning candidate is still not an article-clinching notability claim in and of itself — even at the state gubernatorial level, a candidate ''still'' needs to either (a) already have had preexisting notability for other reasons that would have gotten them an article ''anyway'', such as having served in the state legislature or having passed notability standards in another career prior to entering politics, or (b) show a depth, range and volume of coverage that marks their non-winning candidacy out as a ''special case'' over and above most other people's non-winning candidacies. But neither of those things is in evidence here at all. A small amount of information about him can certainly be included in the election article itself, but nothing here meets the standard of actually earning him his own separate biographical article as a standalone topic
— User:Bearcat, 17:58, 16 January 2019 (UTC)
Stance: merge
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