Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Reginald Logan Rait
Wikipedia does not confer a notability freebie for being the youngest, oldest, fattest, thinnest, etc., person to do an otherwise non-notable thing — with the ''extremely'' rare exception that would require a ''far'' greater volume of sourceability than has been shown here (such as the media firestorm that ate Christine O'Donnell in 2010), an unelected ''candidate'' for office is normally eligible for a Wikipedia article ''only'' if they were ''already'' notable enough for a Wikipedia article for some other reason ''independent'' of their candidacy. But no claim of preexisting notability has been made here, and the sourcing is almost entirely to |primary sources with the few |reliable ones not even approaching the outermost ''suburbs'' of the volume necessary to grant him the O'Donnell treatment for the candidacy itself. If he'd been the youngest person ever to run for the British Parliament in the entire history of Britain, then there ''might'' be a case for inclusion on that basis — though even then, it would still be dependent on the quality of sourcing and would not be an automatic inclusion freebie — but merely being the youngest non-winning candidate in one ''particular'' year doesn't cut it in the slightest
— User:Bearcat, 17:55, 14 March 2016 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:PRIMARYSOURCES||WP:RS (Wikipedia:No original research)