Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kirk McDonough
People do not get articles just for having been candidates in elections they did not win, but this is not demonstrating that he has preexisting notability for other reasons independent of the candidacy: it ''states'' his role as the president of a short-lived defunct hockey league, but completely fails to show that he cleared  for it by having had his work in that role written about in |reliable source coverage. Rather, seven of the eight sources here are addressing his political activities, five of those are |primary sources which are not support for notability at all while the other two are just local media offering general coverage of the election as a whole rather than devoting any attention specifically to McDonough himself, and the only source that has anything to do with hockey at all is another primary source offering technical self-published verification that he once held a different job ''short'' of his strongest potential notability claim. Literally none of this is "inherently" notable enough to exempt him from having to show a hell of a lot more reliable sourcing than this
— User:Bearcat, 16:22, 16 September 2019 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:GNG||WP:RS||WP:PRIMARYSOURCES (Wikipedia:Notability)