Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ellen Lee Zhou
People do not get Wikipedia articles just for being candidates in future elections they have not won; a person has to ''hold'' a notable political office, not just run for one, to clear . But candidates also do not get a -based ''exemption'' from having to pass NPOL just because some local campaign coverage exists in the election context — ''every'' candidate in ''every'' election can ''always'' show some evidence of local campaign coverage, so if the existence of that coverage were enough in and of itself then every candidate would always get that exemption and NPOL itself would become completely meaningless. Furthermore, a considerable number of the media hits here are not ''about her'' in any substantive way, but just glancingly mention her name in the process of being about somebody or something ''else'' (which are not sources that help to demonstrate or bolster her notability, because she isn't their ''subject'') — and several more are |primary sources (committees' self-published meeting minutes, raw tables of ballot counting results, etc.), which are not support for notability either. GNG does not just count the footnotes and keep anything that surpasses an arbitrary number: it also tests for the |reliability of the sources, the ''depth'' of how substantively any given source is or isn't ''about her'', the geographic ''range'' of how widely the coverage is ''spreading'', and the ''context'' of what she's getting coverage ''for'', and the sources here all fail one or more of those tests. Running for mayor is not an inherently notable context that would get her over GNG just because some election coverage exists in the city's local media, because every candidate for mayor of anywhere can always show that. Obviously she'll qualify for an article on or after November 5 if she wins, but nothing here adds up to a reason why she would already be eligible to have an article today
— User:Bearcat, 16:46, 14 September 2019 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:NPOL||WP:GNG||WP:PRIMARYSOURCES||WP:RS (Wikipedia:Notability)