Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/James Watkins (politician)
As always, people do not get Wikipedia articles just for standing as candidates in elections they did not win — the notability test for politicians is ''holding'' a notable political office, not just running for one — but this features neither any credible evidence that he has preexisting notability for other reasons besides being a candidate, nor the range and depth of coverage it would take to make his candidacy more special than everybody else's candidacies. Just because a candidate has some campaign coverage in the local media, where ''every'' candidate is simply ''expected'' to have campaign coverage because that's the local media's ''job'', does not automatically hand every candidate a GNG-based exemption from having to pass any SNGs — a candidate's coverage needs to ''nationalize'', in some way that would get him over the |ten year test for ''enduring significance'', before the existence of campaign coverage is enough to get him a Wikipedia article just for being a candidate
— User:Bearcat, 17:30, 23 September 2020 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:10YT (Wikipedia:Recentism)