Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nicholas Ruiz III
Unelected candidates for office do not get Wikipedia articles just for being candidates, but this as written is not building a credible case that he would get over our notability standards for any of his other work — all of that stuff is referenced entirely to |primary sources, except for one irrelevant newspaper citation that's here only to support the birth and death dates of another tangentially-connected person while failing to even mention Ruiz at all. The |''reliable'' sources here are ''entirely'' in the context of his candidacy itself — but that's just |routine local election coverage of the type that ''every'' candidate in ''any'' election could ''always'' show, and does ''not'' demonstrate that his candidacy meets the rarefied standard necessary to be considered ''more'' notable than the norm. Furthermore, the article was created by a user named "NRIII", meaning it's an  — and even if he were notable enough for an article, the path to getting one does ''not'' pass through writing it himself
— User:Bearcat, 15:48, 19 April 2017 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:PRIMARYSOURCES||WP:RS||WP:ROUTINE||WP:AUTOBIO (Wikipedia:No original research)